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Re:Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (1974) by anthk on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:43AM (#33176857)
No float/double number support, sadly. Yes, I know "starting Forth" has clues to live with that: https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/5-fixed-point-arithmeti... but I would like at least how to print two ints to make a double.

I tried to implement D+, D-, M+ and such by hand, but they failed.

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Re:Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (1974) by mrlemke on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:59AM (#33177937)
Neither would the 8 bit CPU you are salvaging. You don't even really need it anyways, you could get away with integer math. You would be running trading algos for bullets and cigarettes in a shanty bazaar.
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