6.8. 6.8 HLA Standard Library Support for Floating Point Arithmetic

The HLA Standard Library provides several routines that support the use of real numbers. In Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 you saw, with one exception, how the standard input and output routines operate. This section will not repeat that discussion; see those chapters for more details. One input function that Chapter 2 only mentioned briefly was the stdin.getf function. This section will elaborate on that function. The HLA Standard Library also includes the math.hhf module that provides several mathematical functions that the FPU doesn't directly support. This section will discuss those functions, as well.

6.8.1. 6.8.1 The stdin.getf and fileio.getf Functions

The stdin.getf function reads ...

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