tomwalters@0: .TH FTOS 1 "7 September 1993"
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tomwalters@0: .SH NAME
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tomwalters@0: ftos \-  float to short data-type conversion.
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tomwalters@0: .SH SYNTAX
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tomwalters@0: Usage:  ftos  [arguments]  [file]
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tomwalters@0: .SH DESCRIPTION
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tomwalters@0: Binary float-to-short conversion.
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tomwalters@0: .SH OPTIONS
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tomwalters@0: 1. error
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tomwalters@0: When error=on then the maximum and the mean quantization error is printed on
tomwalters@0: the stderr. The quantization error for each floating point number x under the
tomwalters@0: truncating operation int(x) is defined as
tomwalters@0: the absolute quantization error as a proportion of the range:
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: .nf
tomwalters@0: 	(x-int(x)) / int(1+x)
tomwalters@0: .fi
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tomwalters@0: 16-bit under or overflow is also reported if it occurs.
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tomwalters@0: .SH "SEE ALSO"
tomwalters@0: .LP
tomwalters@0: options stof btoa atob
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tomwalters@0: .SH COPYRIGHT
tomwalters@0: .LP
tomwalters@0: Copyright (c) Applied Psychology Unit, Medical Research Council, 1995
tomwalters@0: .LP
tomwalters@0: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software without fee 
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tomwalters@0: the software is not redistributed for any fee (except for a nominal 
tomwalters@0: shipping charge). Anyone wanting to incorporate all or part of this 
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tomwalters@0: .LP
tomwalters@0: The MRC makes no representations about the suitability of this 
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tomwalters@0: .LP
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