Re: A86: RLD/RRD (was FindPixel)


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Re: A86: RLD/RRD (was FindPixel)




Om that thought, do you (or anyone) know how to take a null-terminated
string and make it into a floating point number in OP1 that the calculator
can understand and manipute?

Grams Family wrote:

> At 01:43 PM 5/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >On Wed, 6 May 1998, Dux Gregis wrote:
> >
> >> Is this instruction useful?
> >> I mean, why would anyone want to use this?
> >
> >Well, FindPixel uses it (hence the name of this thread).
> >I imagine it's also useful for BCD multiplication.
> >
> The calc uses it for removing leading 0s from the mantissa of floating
> point numbers!! :-)
>
> --Joshua



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