Re: [Groff] Floating point arithmetic in groff

[Keith MARSHALL]

Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting Mike Bianchi:
>> Is anyone aware of a means by which floating point arithmetic and
>> formating can be computed either within groff or in a preprocessor
>> (ala eqn, tbl, etc.)?
>
> Not that I know of.  Why do you need it?  A longer time ago I've
> written routines to handle double-precision integers, this is, doing
> 60bit integer arithmetic (see below), to be used in a.
> Does this help?

Hasn't Ted previously posted some tips on using pic to perform floating
point calculations, for use within a groff document?  For example, see
the discourse toward the end of this posting:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-10/msg00276.html

Regards,
Keith.