Floating-point arithmetic
A look at the floating-point support of the Java virtual machine
By Bill Venners, JavaWorld.com, 10/01/96
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To drive the simulation, just press the "Step" button. Each press of the "Step" button will cause the JVM to execute one bytecode
instruction. To start the simulation over, press the "Reset" button. The text area at the bottom of the applet describes the
next instruction to be executed. Happy clicking.
Click here for the source code of Circle of Squares.
About the author
Bill Venners has been writing software professionally for 12
years.Based in Silicon Valley, he provides software consulting and
training services under the name Artima Software Company. Over the
years he has developed software for the consumer electronics,
education, semiconductor, and life insurance industries. He has
programmed in many languages on many platforms: assembly language
on various microprocessors, C on Unix, C++ on Windows, Java on the
Web. He is author of the book: Inside the
Java Virtual Machine, published by McGraw-Hill.