Re: A86: Re: getting _randint to work

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: getting _randint to work
From: Dux Gregis <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:39:07 -0500
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Jeremy Goetsch wrote:

> The value stored in _FPS is the 16-bit address in RAM page 1 of the top of
> the floating point stack. E.g., if there are no floating point operations in
> progress, the value is the same as in _FPBASE, which is $0000, since the
> floating point stack starts at the beginning of ram page 1.
>
> I assume that he does not mean for you to load the value into (_FPS) itself,
> but into the top of the floating point stack on RAM page 1.
> I guess it would be stored in the same format as an OP, not sure though.

The call came from one of the Pede files.  Pat refers to the second end point as
FPST and I just assumed he meant _FPS.  Look at the ti86math.inc that comes with
pede; there might even be an example.

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