erik malund wrote:
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My GUESS is that you have a measurement precise to say 3 digits that some salesman want displayed in 8 digits. In that case calculate the first 3 digits and set a randomly generated number in the remaining 5.

We've done plenty of instrumentation jobs where the internal requirements of the calculations required 8 digit precision, not very fast, but very precise. You don't need to do many operations on 14 bit data to need 32 bit data.

Steve