From: "Adrian Francis" <adrian DOT francis AT cableinet DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re:a variable type
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I use this a lot in my 3D engine code.

fixed is a type definition like this...

typedef long int fixed;

so instead of typing...

long int n;

we can do...

fixed n;

although I prefer...

fix n;

because it's even shorter!

Does that explain it?

-ADRIAN-