On Sun, 15 May 2005, emailtoprs wrote:
> HI FELLOWS
> I HAVE SOEM PROBLEM WITH FLOATING POINT ADDITION AS SHOWN BY THE
> METHOD (FAST16) IN BLACKFIN EE185 NOTES FROM ANALOG DEVICES. THE
> PROBLEM COMES WEN THE EXPONENT ARE DIFFRNT. example to multiply 3 and
> 0.5 . i detect the problem as in shifting the mantissa relative to
> othere
That's what you are supposed to do. If you add 3 and .5 you need to get
3.5, not 8. If you don't shift the mantissa you won't get the right
answer.
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike