Floating point routines for the 6809

[Toby Thain]

On 2017-03-28 11:23 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, jim stephens via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> I need to scrounge around
>
> Hmm. That is not a possible usage of "scrounge" the way I know it. You
> can't scrounge something you already have. It doesn't mean "search
> for", it means "to pilfer", to get something off someone by the
> pretence of borrowing it when you have no intention of ever returning
> or repaying it. I.e. it's borderline theft.
>
> It can mean to scavenge or to forage -- to go and seek something that
> isn't yours that you can take and keep or use.
>
> It doesn't mean to borrow, to seek, to look for.
>

Then it's a regional thing.

Where I come from you can definitely say "scrounge up" as "to look for", 
either in one's own stuff, or "somewhere".

The pejorative sense of "scrounger" is different.

--Toby