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Re: Let's calculate! - renewed arithmetic routines

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:46 pm
by zsolt
Hi,

Here come the latest bug fixes. Olofsen sent a newer program, wich tests the functions using very big and very small numbers.
l.p
olofsen's limits tester
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There were problems, with the renewed cosine function and the new INT routine was also buggy (in case of negative integer numbers).
Surprisingly i found a little bug in the SQR routine :o which is there since debut of SG81 ROM:

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;   This guess is based on a Usenet discussion.
;   Halve the exponent to achieve a good guess.(accurate with .25 16 64 etc.)
;
;;-	LD HL,$4071		; Address first byte of mem-3		($4071 points mem-4!!!)

	ld hl,$406C		; Address first byte of mem-3
Due to that wrong address the routine was very slow, in case of very big and very small numbers:
speedtest.png

@Siggi: the function-labels have been renamed - they now start with an "fn_" prefix. ;)

Regards,
Zsolt

Re: Let's calculate! - renewed arithmetic routines

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:22 pm
by stefano
I posted a couple of years ago the Lambda 8300 disassembly, you may have noticed that it reorganized the FP-CALC opcodes to handle the END instruction as a sort of "status" bit together with some of the provided functions. It was probably used to obfuscate the code (to avoid copyright problems) and to compress it a little more.

Re: Let's calculate! - renewed arithmetic routines

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:13 pm
by zsolt
Hi Stefano,
Yes, i know your great work, and the 2nd post of this topic begins with you. :D (and there were some links as well) ;)
Regards,
Zsolt

Re: Let's calculate! - renewed arithmetic routines

Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:20 pm
by stefano
oops.. :)