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   ocr: In many graphic applications, designers need mumbers that have beth a whele part and a fractional part, but in some situations the everhead of fleatingpeint eperations ts unacceptable. an easy selutien is tet use 32-bit leng arithmetic in which the fraction is stered in the lewer 16 bits and the whole part of the number is - stered in the upper 16 bits. Such umbers have cuifcient resclution for most graphic applications.