[Coco] printing out floating point numbers...(only peripherally related to coco)

[Arthur Flexser]

I believe there was an article in Rainbow about Mandelbrot plotting in one of
the later issues, by somebody who wrote their own floating point routines.  
Perhaps somebody can turn that up.

Art

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Robert Gault wrote:

> There is one application I can think of that might require such high 
> precision in a narrow range, Mandelbrot plotting. But if that is what 
> was intended, floating point numbers would be very very slow. What one 
> needs is some type of scaled integer math so that the ml program stays 
> as fast as possible.