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04:57:13 <Cheery> http://retroforth.net/paste/?id=186
04:57:33 <Cheery> Quartus, that converts floating points into octal representation.
04:59:56 <Cheery> thus it handles the exponent.
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09:31:23 --- topic: 'RetroForth | Pastebin @ http://retroforth.net/paste | The editing key is 'despair''
09:31:23 --- topic: set by crc on [Sat Aug 05 13:13:30 2006]
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10:26:31 <Quartus> That's one way to do it :)  You need to handle + and - zero.
10:52:59 <Raystm2> Cheery, I like how that reads in RetroForth. neat. 
10:53:37 <Raystm2> Quartus: the section words are a nice addition.
10:55:02 <Cheery> Quartus, but it is handling + and - zero?
10:55:06 <Cheery> or wait, is it? :)
10:55:25 <Cheery> yes, it is doing. :)
10:55:41 <Quartus> oh ok. Didn't catch that.
10:55:50 <Cheery> it writes: -0e for negative zero and 0e for positive.
10:56:03 <Cheery> there's that little word called put-sign, which takes care of that.
10:56:18 <Quartus> Raystm2, in standard Forth I use module/end-module quite a lot.  It's a handy tool for encapsulation, and to aid in factoring.
10:56:42 <Quartus> Cheery, I recall there's a couple of other special patterns.
11:04:20 <Cheery> +INF, -INF, NaN?
11:04:28 <Cheery> I put all in I found from wikipedia article. :D
11:04:37 <Cheery> and they all works.
11:04:39 <Quartus> There's a few more, let me check
11:06:48 <Quartus> No, I guess that's the lot.  Something nags at me, but it may just be a lack of coffee. :) If I think of it I'll let you know.
11:15:28 <Cheery> heh.
11:15:41 <Cheery> What nags at you is that thing shows the floats in octals. ;)
11:15:49 <Cheery> (I guess.)
11:15:57 <Quartus> No. I haven't tried the code, actually.
11:22:17 <Quartus__> where's futhin? Didn't he say this could all be done in 8 lines of forth? :)
11:39:46 <crc> futhin comes up with lots of bogus numbers... though perhaps with really long lines.... :)
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12:03:05 <Cheery> I noticed one intresting thing:
12:03:27 <Cheery> to switch from 10 base to 8 base, you just need to add two's into the number.
12:03:28 <Cheery> like.
12:03:33 <Cheery> 23
12:03:44 <Cheery> add 4 and you have the octal version
12:03:46 <Cheery> 27
12:04:06 <Cheery> thought, I don't know how to handle this thing with bigger numbers yet. :D
12:05:45 <Cheery> .5, in this you must decrease amounts somehow.
12:05:48 <Cheery> to get .4 
12:06:07 <Cheery> so the method doesn't seem to work for negative exponents.
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12:10:32 <Cheery> oh well, I'll stay in 8 base.
12:10:57 <Cheery> It seems good for things I do anyways. ^^
12:27:13 <Quartus__> myself I'd prefer hex to octal, except yo'd have to use something other than e for exponents.
12:37:15 <Cheery> quartus, what do you prefer?
12:37:18 <Cheery> octonents?
12:37:23 <Cheery> or hexponents :D
12:38:01 <Quartus__> heh. Maybe. 123h4 would be good, also reminding you it's a hex float.
12:45:29 <Quartus__> or 123$4 for hex, 123%4 for octal
12:54:24 <Cheery> LOL
12:54:34 <Cheery> I lke thi 123.3&2
12:54:40 <Cheery> :)
12:54:47 <Cheery> It looks somehow logical, doesn't it?
13:41:18 <Quartus> I don't know, actually I suspect the special symbols would be confusing.
13:42:11 <Cheery> hmm.
13:42:21 <Cheery> 123.3o2 seems good for me. :/
13:42:29 <Cheery> thought & doesn't look bad at all too.
13:42:32 <Quartus> there's the O/0 problem.
13:43:43 <Cheery> yeh.
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