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13 years ago

Floating point division

Hi, does anyone has a code for floating point division? i tried using the megafunction tool for division but it keeps giving me error when i run simulation.
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13 years ago

You are then dividing two values between 0.5 and 1.999999999 - so the exponent may need changing by 1 (or 2?) in order to normalise the resultant mantissa.

You should also worry aout the rounding rules (round to even is normally specified by default).