>From the philosphical point of view, 64 bit integer is the same as 64 bit float, except for, that you give certain bits a different meaning.
Picolisp gives you total freedom, to decide, what to do with those 64 (or even more!!!) bits. Either you can store 4x 16 bit as so called "minifloat", even 8 bit floats do exist, e.g. within neural nets. Alex documented that: https://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#data Picolisp thus also can handle very long numbers, e.g. used in enterprises, such as Siemens to handle huge sums, that go into the billions. Picolisp is used in Logistics as well as ERP system. Picolisp easily can substitute SAP for small enterprises (<10000 employees): Alex wrote about that here: https://software-lab.de/doc/app.html [quote] A Minimal Complete Application The PicoLisp release includes in the "app/" directory a minimal, yet complete reference application. This application is typical, in the sense that it implements many of the techniques described in this document, and it can be easily modified and extended. In fact, we use it as templates for our own production application development. It is a kind of simplified ERP system, containing customers/suppliers, products (items), orders, and other data. The order input form performs live updates of customer and product selections, price, inventory and totals calculations, and generates on-the-fly PDF documents. Fine-grained access permissions are controlled via users, roles and permissions. It comes localized in seven languages (English, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian and Japanese), with some initial data and two sample reports. Since this reference application employs so many of the typical techniques used in writing PicoLisp applications, taking the time to study it is time very well invested. Another good way to get acquainted with the language and framework is to start experimenting by writing small applications of your own. Copying and making changes to the reference application is a very good way to get started with this, and I highly recommend doing so. [/quote] You get an (Cloud) ERP system for free!!!!! Before you have introduced and customized SAP for you needs, you're bankrupt. Picolisp is the much better solution, takes much less resources. Price: ZERO! And if so much freedom is too much for you, nothing prevents you do bind GNU Scientific Library into Lisp via FFI, with IEEE floats and all known US standards. But i can tell you, that Picolisp "standards" are very well thought through. https://picolisp.com/wiki/?interfacing https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ Have fun! Best regards, Guido
