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De - Pt| English Dictionary: fixed-point | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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fixed-point is represented by an {integer} N such that R=N*B, where B is the (assumed) base of the representation. On computers with no {floating-point unit} fixed-point calculations can be significantly faster as all the operations are basically integer operations. Apart from that, fixed-point representation has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is B throughout the representable range, in sharp contrast to {floating-point} representations. (1998-05-18) | |
