[squeak-dev] Re: Is there a better implementation of Floats?
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini at gnu.org
Thu Apr 10 06:08:57 UTC 2008
Bernd Elkemann wrote:
>> If you really want Floating point operations (that is inexact) with
>> more digits, I initiated the ArbitraryPrecisionFloat package at
>> http://www.squeaksource.com/ArbitraryPrecisionFl/ . You can download
>> it using Monticello or SqueakMap (better use Monticello, the SqueakMap
>> will point on an old version).
>
> I think thats exactly what i need,
> thanks so much
Actually I'm sure it is not. It will have exactly the same problems,
they are less likely but cannot be magically solved: 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.3
are anyway periodic numbers in base-2.
Paolo
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