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    07-Dec-87 01:23:42
Sb: #97073-Dead?
Fm: John Draper 76703,4322
To: Steve Faiwiszewski 74106,425
Steve, I don't consider MandFXP to be in any way 'brute force'. The algorithms used are carefully thought out and a great many insights have been applied to the problem. I would be willing to bet that any algorithm using standard floating point (FFP or IEEE) would not be faster than the integer math used in MandFXP. Just because something is coded in assembler, or because the floating point functions have been replaced by faster and more accurate equivalents does not make it 'brute force'. Regards, Larry.