#### [Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +0200: Shlomi Fish]
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
>
> > *After* you've answered those three questions, proceed to ask why we're
> > doing it ourselves instead.
> >
>
> Fine, let me ask this: why we're doing it ourselves instead of using gmp?
>From the gmp documentation:
"Note that the mpf functions are not intended as a smooth extension
to IEEE P754 arithmetic. In particular results obtained on one
computer often differ from the results on a computer with a
different word size."
And previous discussion decided that a decimal arithmetic was more
useful for the big number library than any other form.
Alex Gough
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