On 23Apr2011 19:37, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: [...] | Yes, my "big num" research stuff was initially done in REXX, on | VM/CMS. I later ported my libraries over to OS/2 and continued with | that well into the '90s, when I discovered Unix and 'bc'. Many | folks are not aware that 'bc' also has arbitrary precision floating | point math and a standard math library.
Floating point math? I thought, historically at least, that bc is built on dc (arbitrary precision integer math, reverse polish syntax) and that consequently bc uses fixed point math rather than floating point. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ >From sci.physics: t...@mailzone.com: The only problem is, how do you send a message from Earth to Mars instantly? Does anyone have any ideas about where we can start? John Baez <b...@math.mit.edu>: Just use a coordinate system in which the point at which the message is received has the same t coordinate as the point at which the message was sent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
