Re: How to do floating point division?

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From: Martin Ambuhl
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:00

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Kagenin wrote:
> 
> > It has been a couple of years so could be wrong, but isn't Pi difined in
> > math.h???????  If so wouldn't using that be a lot simpler?
> >
> > Bob
> 
> The Implementation of how many places Pi goes out there is up to the
> compiler's manufacturer.  All the ANSI standards say it only has to
> exist, but to my knowledge, it doesn't define how far it has to go.

There is no mention of pi in the standard, and it _cannor_ be there is
ANSI/ISO-conforming mode. The standard certainly doesn't require it to
exist.

> 
> For example, I know that gcc defines Pi in math.h differently than in
> MSVC (at least what I gather from the Quake 2 gamesx86.dll open source).

Did you notice the conditionals around those constants.  The
non-standard constants disappear when the compiler is invoked as a
standard C or C++ translator.

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