Re: [Amforth-devel] printing floats

[Leon N. M. <leo...@gm...>]

Engineering notation is also on the todo list (see FE. in the standard). I 
don't know about the HP25, but many older HP calculators used the Saturn 
microprocessor that could handle 16 BCD digits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(microprocessor)

I've seen the 4th stuff -- definitely a lot of good material (I wish I'd seen 
it sooner).

-Leon

On Saturday, September 04, 2010 03:30:56 pm you wrote:
> A point to fs. For small systems float with 3-4 decimal places is
> perfect when measuring standard stuff except when measure frequency
> or time.  What could be nice to have is engineering notation. I have
> got it on my HP-25, and frankly, I do not understand how they did it
> on such small footprint. Not sure whether it's processor calculates
> in BCD directly, then it is easy. Once I did it on pic in C, but the
> code was big as I had needed log(). Pito