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WIP: 16C firmware hack for more memory
04-09-2023, 06:54 AM
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RE: WIP: 16C firmware hack for more memory
Overflow handling wasn't terribly difficult. I've resolved all of the known bugs in the hacked 16C firmware. I'd be surprised if there weren't more bugs hiding in there. I wish I had a copy of HP's regression test suite.

HP's e^x routine is deliberately written to support a range up to 10^200. Beyond that it saturates at 10^200. While 10^100 is the overflow point for final user results, I think the 10^200 limit in the actual routine was to allow for extended range in intermediate results in other microcode functions that use e^x as a subroutine.
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