Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point -- interested in a sneak preview?

[J-F Garnier]

(03-17-2014 01:01 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  ... release (1.5.2); it's on my web site now. It also includes the sin(45°) = cos(45°) fix, and the improved decimal Y^X and 10^X.

Thanks for the improved 10^X. It makes the FWIW utility to work correctly now (was failing in some cases before).
I noted that there is also a similar issue in the reverse situation:
1E5 LOG 5 - --> 1E-33 (also for 1E40 and other)
This didn't happen in versions 1.4.7x

J-F

[added: worst case is 1E63: 1E63 LOG IP --> 62 ; this can still make FWIW to fail to extract the mantissa/exponent correctly]