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SYMBIAN OS V6.1 EDITION FOR C++

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Maths Services Overview


Purpose

Provides advanced mathematical operations on real numbers.

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Architectural relationships

Types for integer and single-precision and double-precision floating-point numbers are defined by the Basic Types API.

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Description

The API has two key concepts: maths utilities, and extended precision real number.


Maths utilities

The maths utilities are a collection of static class functions that perform trigonometric, power/root/log, conversion and rounding, and test functions on real numbers.


Extended precision real number

The extended precision real number type provides 64-bit precision, and efficient arithmetic and comparison operators.

The extended precision real number type is provided by TRealX.

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See also

Basic Types Overview