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From: "marco atzeri"
On a Linux system that I have access to, I see that those functions
are in /lib/libm.* but cygwin's /lib/libm.* still seems to lack them.
Is there any work around or alternate version ofthis lib that actually
has these functions. I honestly do not mean to be rude, but how
difficult is it to impliment these functions which seem so common in
most unix-like systems?
It is not overcomplicated to implement it, but it takes time and
someone to do it.
When I implemented all the complex functions (cabs, ccos..) I spent one
month
to make it right. A more capable guy will take less surely, but as
mention I see little
benefit moving from 64 to 80 bits so I was not interested to implement it.
I sense an opportunity here to plug (to the op) the Math::MPFR perl module -
for which the gmp and mpfr C libraries are required.
I guess one could also use Math::BigFloat, but I assume the op has already
considered (and rejected) that option - the performance hit incurred by its
use has always discouraged me.
Perhaps he has also already considered and rejected Math::MPFR, but it seems
to me to be by far the best option for achieving added precision with
floating point numbers - at least until such time as building perl
with -Duselongdouble has been facilitated.
Cheers,
Rob
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