fixedpoint

Implements fixed point arithmetics.

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     fixedpoint:
       github: Groogy/fixedpoint
   

2. Run shards install

Usage

To include the fixed point structure you have to write this to get started.

require "fixedpoint"

include FP

Everything is defined in the FP namespace, it's optional to mixin the module but highly recommended. It provides some shortcut to also make things easier to work with.

• FP::FixedPoint(Underlying, Scale) is the struct that represents a fixed point value. Underlying is what underlying data type it will use while Scale is what it will scale that value with.
• FP::FixedPoint32 is an alias for FixedPoint(Int32, 1_000) and have a range of -2 147 483.648 to 2 147 483.647 with a precision of 3 digits
• FP::FixedPoint64 is an alias for FixedPoint(Int64, 1_000_000) and have a range of -9 223 372 036 854.775808 to -9 223 372 036 854.775807 with a precision of 6 digits.
• FP.fp32(Number) is a shortcut function to construct a FixedPoint32 value from the given number
• FP.fp64(Number) is a shortcut function to construct a FixedPoint64 value from the given number
• FP.fp(Number) is a shortcut function but will construct a FixedPoint based of the size of the given number.

Future Development

Right now this uses a very naive implementation that does a lot of division meaning a bit slower performance, also limits the range a bit more than other solutions would, especially when it comes to multiplication. So next step should be to do a different kind of implementation that performs better and that let's us use the built-in LLVM operators for fixed point arithmetics.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/Groogy/fixedpoint/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Groogy - creator and maintainer