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From: Warp
Date: 1 Jan 2009 12:52:39
Message: <495d02e7@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> > Why would Thunderbird (for example) use FP?

>   To parse CSS, where many values can be represented in decimal? Also
> Thunderbird most probably supports JavaScript, which in turn should
> support FP...

  Btw, out of curiosity, I downloaded the Thunderbird source code and
searched for usage of floating point. There are quite a lot of 'float'
and 'double' types used there, as well as many calls to the math.h library.

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                                                          - Warp


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