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Author dtorp
Recipients dtorp
Date 2011-05-01.03:05:21
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Message-id <1304219122.96.0.441741571719.issue11967@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I would like to left and right shift floats as a fast way to multiply or divide by a power of 2 without rounding error.  The only way to do that now is t=frexp(x) and y=ldexp(t[0],t[1]+2).  But would be better to type y=x<<2.  Thank you.
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2011-05-01 03:05:23dtorpsetrecipients: + dtorp
2011-05-01 03:05:22dtorpsetmessageid: <1304219122.96.0.441741571719.issue11967@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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