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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!udel!news!news.sprintlink.net!crash!costa From: costa@crash.cts.com (Bob Costa) Subject: Re: Math Emulation: Is it any good? Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET/crash), San Diego, CA Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 17:08:19 GMT Message-ID: <CnyA9w.FwK@crash.cts.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <1994Apr6.233228.23947@integrity.uucp> <michaelv.765698714@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@crash.cts.com (news subsystem) Nntp-Posting-Host: crash.cts.com Lines: 24 Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@iastate.edu) wrote: : 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. : -- : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - : Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center : michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff : Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc. : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -