Re: Looking for Q*/

On Sunday 09 October 2005 06:01 am, Allen Anway wrote:
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> hardware float stack corruptionForth people:
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> Does someone have a word like Q*/
> ( d1 d2 d3 --- d4 ) that performs
> d1 * d2 / d3 with a 4-cell intermediate product?
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Allen,

Interesting question. What are you doing that needs a 2^128 intermediate
product? If pre-scaling isn't appropriate, perhaps switching to floating
point might work.

Noel

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