Transcendental Numbers

John Brant brant at cs.uiuc.edu
Fri Jan 30 16:05:33 UTC 1998


It should be ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu, not http://st.cs.uiuc.edu.


John Brant
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At 09:52 PM 1/29/98 -0600, James Rupert wrote:
>Ralph,
>
>I tried to access the paper mentioned below, but the site is inaccessible.
>Is this the right location?  Is this server site down?  Any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>James
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ralph E. Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>
>To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
>Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 8:37 AM
>Subject: Re: Transcendental Numbers
>
>
>>Double-dispatching was faster in VisualWorks than coercion was.
>>It seems a lot more elegant to me, as well.  Further, it works
>>better for matrices.  Kurt Hebel made an implementation for
>>ParcPlace Smalltalk before ParcPlace switched over, and we wrote
>>a paper about it that you can find at
>>http://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/papers/patterns/double-dispatch.ps
>>The code is at http://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/st80_r4/arithmetic.st
>>It includes all sorts of wierd arithmetic objects, such as matrices,
>>infininities and infinitessimals, polynomials and functions.  It shouldn't
>>be that hard to port to Squeak.
>>
>>-Ralph
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