On 2009-06-25 18:43, Scott David Daniels wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
... I wish people would stop representing decimal floating point
arithmetic as "more accurate" than binary floating point arithmetic.
It isn't. Decimal floating point arithmetic does have an extremely
useful niche: ...
Well, we don't actually have an arbitrary-precision, huge exponent
version of binary floating point.
You may not. I do.
http://code.google.com/p/mpmath/
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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