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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Math Emulation: Is it any good?
Date: 7 Apr 94 06:05:14 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <1994Apr6.233228.23947@integrity.uucp> faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner,2123,x8711,109085,) writes:
>I have tried running astrolog, a gnu liscensed astrology program, and ended up a
>Virgo. Being an Aries, I was less than thrilled with the results. I am running
>on a 386, no math processor. I have run it on a BSDI 486 box and get the right
>answer. Does anyone know if this might be due to the 386 floating point emulation
>or problems in the math library? The math IS fairly intensive and many functions
>are used that I don't use every day. I almost never use Bessel Functions any more.
>My one attempt at running this on a 486 FreeBSD box (Oh, sorry, I am running FreeBSD
>current, ) result in a floating point exception, but that was some time ago. Is
>an alternative package I can drop in for math emulation?
The NetBSD-current math library recently went though a complete
overhaul. I believe they replaced the old 386BSDish stuff with
something from Sun. Accuracy on non-FPU-equipped boxes is supposed to
be significantly better than the old library.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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