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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Math problems
Date: 11 Dec 1993 00:45:35 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <1993Dec10.064704.26243@news.unt.edu>,
Byron Goodman <byron@ocf.nms.unt.edu> wrote:
>Does anyone know if FreeBSD has math problems with its math libraries or 
>doing math in general?  I've been trying to get Galatic Bloodshed running 
>but it is having rounding errors when using sqrt() or rand().  Any ideas?

Do you have a math co-processor?  If not, then yes, FreeBSD has some
problems with the current kernel math-emulator.  Hopefully we will get a
new version sometime soon.  In the meantime, if you can afford it get a
math-coprocessor which is faster and more accurate.


Nate





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