Jarvis, Robert P. (Bob) (Contingent) wrote:
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> My choice, if I was given one, would be to get rid of floating point
> entirely and replace it with some form of unlimited-precision scaled
> decimal.

In which precision (10, 100 or ? digits) would you represent e.g. pi?
And what about sqrt(2)? Symbolic maths?

Greetings
Stephan

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