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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

fixed point precision

Peace! I want ask about the number of bits shoud I use in an fixed_point number to obtein the good precision, precision of distance eclidean. some detail: I want to determine an vector of ...
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12 years ago

your division just needs discarding 10 lsb bits from 18 so you are left with 8 bits. If you want to keep fractional bits then just don't divide as the 10 lsbs is the fractional bits. so I don't really get it.