The FloatView unit provides bit-level access to Single and Double
floating-point types in FreePascal.  In particular, it offers two
functions to convert a floating-point number to string using
an exact binary representation of the number.

For an explanation of the limitations and dangers of floating-point
arithmetic see e.g.

	Gyula Horvath, Tom Verhoeff.
	Numerical Difficulties in Pre-University Informatics Education
	and Competitions, Informatics in Education, Vol. 2, Number 1, pp.21-38.
	<http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/publications/INFE012-final.pdf>
	Errata and further references:
	<http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/publications/extra-INFE012.html>

The FloatView unit itself is contained in the file floatview.pp.
The program testfloatview.pp is a test driver for FloatView.
The expected out is testfloatview.out_expected.

Files

	README.txt		this file
	COPYING			LGPL license
	COPYING.FloatView	License for FloatView (a modified LGPL)
	floatview.pp		the FloatView unit
	testfloatview.pp	test driver for FloatView unit
	testfloatview.out_expected	expected output of testfloatview
	countdown.pp		illustrates floating-point limitation
	io-conversion.pp	illustrates conversion error on i/o
	solve-quadratic.pp	illustrates floating-point danger