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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!halley!integrity!olympus!faulkner From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner,2123,x8711,109085,) Subject: Math Emulation: Is it any good? Message-ID: <1994Apr6.233228.23947@integrity.uucp> Sender: usenet@integrity.uucp (User for usenet) Reply-To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc. ISD division Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 23:32:28 GMT Lines: 18 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? Thanks, Boyd Oh, and please spare me the jibes about running an astrology program. :-) I get enough abuse at home.