amforth-float -- a partly complete floating point wordset for AmForth, available at <http://amforth.sourceforge.net>. The basic floating point wordset is almost complete. The extension wordset is mostly incomplete. See the check list below. This is a personal project -- I am not involved with the development of AmForth. However, this library has been included in amforth since version 4.2 (along with some related libraries like assembly versions of some of the words). To use this library as is, you need to include some words when assembling AmForth. Add the following to 'dict_appl.inc': ; needed for place-rec .include "words/n_to_r.asm" .include "words/n_r_from.asm" ; for maker .include "dict_wl.inc" ; needed for recognizer .include "words/get-recognizer.asm" .include "words/set-recognizer.asm" ; other files for amforth-float .include "words/d-equal.asm" .include "words/2r_from.asm" .include "words/2to_r.asm" If you really want to avoid doing this, amforth-float can be modified to work while still retaining much of its functionality; see previous versions of the readme. Once AmForth is installed on the microcontroller, upload lib/ans94/core/postpone.frt lib/ans94/core-ext/marker.frt float.fth in that order. This floating point implementation is inspired by the IEEE 754-2008 binary32 format -- your standard single precision float. I adapted their format to fit with the way amforth handles double length integers (henceforth 'doubles'), with the most significant cell higher on the stack. The most significant bit is the sign bit, followed by a byte for the exponent, and the remaining 23 bits for the significant. See the basics at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_precision_floating-point_format These floats are stored on the data stack -- not on their own separate stack. ANS94 Floating-point words check list Words with 'yes' next to them have been implemented. see <http://lars.nocrew.org/dpans/dpans12.htm> or <http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/551.jvn.fall01/dpans12.htm> Floating-Point words: >FLOAT yes D>F yes F! yes F* yes F+ yes F- yes F/ yes F0< yes F0= yes F< yes F>D yes F@ yes FALIGN FALIGNED FCONSTANT yes FDEPTH yes FDROP yes FDUP yes FLITERAL yes FLOAT+ yes FLOATS yes FLOOR yes FMAX yes FMIN yes FNEGATE yes FOVER yes FROT yes FROUND yes FSWAP yes FVARIABLE yes REPRESENT Floating-Point extension words: DF! DF@ DFALIGN DFALIGNED DFLOAT+ DFLOATS F** F. yes FABS yes FACOS FACOSH FALOG FASIN FASINH FATAN FATAN2 FATANH FCOS FCOSH FE. yes FEXP FEXPM1 FLN FLNP1 FLOG FS. yes FSIN FSINCOS FSINH FSQRT FTAN FTANH F~ yes PRECISION yes SET-PRECISION yes SF! SF@ SFALIGN SFALIGNED SFLOAT+ SFLOATS Other words in the library that you may find useful but aren't part of the standard: -stack manipulation words: FNIP ( f1 f2 -- f2 ) FTUCK ( f1 f2 -- f2 f1 f2 ) NFSWAP ( f n -- n f ) FNSWAP ( n f -- f n ) NFOVER ( f n -- f n f ) FNOVER ( n f -- n f n ) (Note that The way to remember the FN/NF words is that FN/NF shows the top two items on the stack after executing the word. E.g. for FNSWAP, after execution the stack will be F N.) -float comparison words: F= ( f1 f2 -- flag ) F< ( f1 f2 -- flag ) F> ( f1 f2 -- flag ) F>= ( f1 f2 -- flag ) F<= ( f1 f2 -- flag ) -float constants: F0 ( -- f-0 ) returns a float equal to zero F1 ( -- f-1 ) F10 ( -- f-10 ) -float operators: F10^N ( n -- f-10^n ) CEIL ( f -- f ) returns the ceiling of f -float <-> single conversion: S>F ( n -- f ) F>S ( f -- n ) -float display: FSD. ( f -- ) prints the float in scientific notation using the dragon2 algorithm, which automatically decides how many digits to print FEE. ( f -- n) prints out the mantissa in engineering notation but leaves the exponent on the stack SI. ( n -- ) prints the SI prefixes for the exponent on the stack Note: these last two can be used together to print out numbers with SI prefixes for example: > 555.66e5 fee. si. 55.57M ok -double words D0= ( d -- flag ) D= ( d1 d2 -- flag ) D0< ( d -- flag ) D10* ( d -- d*10 ) -other: FALSE ( -- n-0 ) >= ( n1 n2 -- flag ) the flag is true if n1 >= n2 and false otherwise There are many words in the library that are helper words and you'll probably have no use for. All the files that make up this library are copyright 2013 by Leon Maurer. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; using version 2 of the License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.