
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
In my last article, I slightly screwed up. A signed 32 bit fixed point number, with two places of precision (less than you need when calculating things like interest and what have you, but lets be generous) has a maximum representation of even less than I off the cuffed -- a mere 21,474,836.48. This is hardly sufficient for accounting. However, floating point is even less useful. .pm