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21 January 2006
long double datatype on MacOS
I recently found out from a scitech@listsapple.com posting that the way long double is defined on MacOS PPC hardware does not increase the range of available numbers; it only addings to the precision of the calculation. “Long double on Tiger is formatted as a 128 bit head to tail pair of doubles. The first double [...]
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12 January 2006
Thinking about objects
I was doing something completely unrelated to this topic when for some reason I thought of a nice way to explain object orientated programming in an easy to understand way (by the way I should say the book that made it click for me was Stephen Kochans’ Programming in Objective-C). Most arguments start out my [...]