[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-nice.646.mcz

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Oct 29 15:54:47 UTC 2011


On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 03:29:57PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> 2011/10/29  <commits at source.squeak.org>:
> > Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk:
> > http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-nice.646.mcz
> >
> > ==================== Summary ====================
> >
> > Name: Kernel-nice.646
> > Author: nice
> > Time: 29 October 2011, 3:25:43.994 pm
> > UUID: cd46101c-40a4-49fd-b358-a8d0c555810f
> > Ancestors: Kernel-nice.645
> >
> > There might be a best inexact square root approximation than Float infinity to some LargePositiveInteger in the range (1<<54-1<<970 to: 1<<54-1<<1994)
> >
> 
> I mean a better approximation...
> But it should effectively be the best.

indeed ;-)

It's good to see all these improvements to numeric methods!

Dave




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