On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:16:33PM +0000, Graham Barr wrote: > I may be jumping in at a bad point in this thread as I have not > followed it all. But Convert::ASN has to do just this and it does > it using frexp and then calling modf() repeatedly while multiplying > the mantissa. Yes, of course it is possible to do "the hard way". I think Nick was convinced that it is easy to do "directly" too. And unless fmod() is very quick everywhere, I think I managed to unconvince him now. ;-) Ilya