On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:44:21AM +, Ben Evans wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:18:45AM +, David Chan wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:35:13PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:17:55AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> > > > Yes, at some point allowing 10**222
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:18:45AM +, David Chan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:35:13PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:17:55AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> > > Yes, at some point allowing 10**2, is just silly,
> > > and I doubt the potentiona
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:35:13PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:17:55AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> > Yes, at some point allowing 10**2, is just silly,
> > and I doubt the potentional applications are numerous enough to
> > warrant trying it. So lon
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:17:55AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> Yes, at some point allowing 10**2, is just silly,
> and I doubt the potentional applications are numerous enough to
> warrant trying it. So long as we're clear about what the limits are,
about 10**98 particles in t
> Would it be good to say exactly what type of rounding this is? What
> is 19 / 5? How about 19 / -5? FWIW, here's what Perl
> currently thinks:
>
> 19 / 5 = 3
> (-19)/ 5 = -3
> 19 /-5 = -3
> (-19)/-5 = 3
On way to solve this is to provide two sets of division operators, ie
div/mod vs
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:57:45AM +, David Chan was heard to mutter:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:08:58AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> > =item Division
> >
> > Under integer conditions, division is halted once the first fractional
> > digit is calculated, with the result then being rounded to
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:08:58AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> =item Division
>
> Under integer conditions, division is halted once the first fractional
> digit is calculated, with the result then being rounded to an integer
> and returned. ^
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> On Thursday 21 February 2002 22:08, Alex Gough wrote:
> >
> > It is therefore the current I which determines which numeric
> > type is being considered during a particular operation, this makes it
> > easy to upgrade from one numeric form to another,
Comments inline. Some snippage.
On Thursday 21 February 2002 22:08, Alex Gough wrote:
>
> It is therefore the current I which determines which numeric
> type is being considered during a particular operation, this makes it
> easy to upgrade from one numeric form to another, and also allows for
>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:53:12AM +, Simon Cozens was heard to mutter:
> Nicholas Clark:
> > > =item Round half even
> > This is the standard financial way of rounding?
>
> Is it? That's something we need to get extremely right.
[ 2:12PM]parrot/types% perl bignum_atest.pl rounding.decTest |
Nicholas Clark:
> > =item Round half even
> This is the standard financial way of rounding?
Is it? That's something we need to get extremely right.
--
"The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking
operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box."
-- Pe
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:08:58AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> > =head2 Rounding
> >
> > The rounding part of the context defines the rounding algoritm to be
> > used, the following are provided (examples assume a precision of 5):
> >
> > =over 4
> >
>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:08:58AM +, Alex Gough wrote:
> =head2 Rounding
>
> The rounding part of the context defines the rounding algoritm to be
> used, the following are provided (examples assume a precision of 5):
>
> =over 4
>
> =item Round down
This is rounding to zero, isn't it?
>
On Thursday 21 February 2002 22:08, Alex Gough wrote:
> This is a slightly confused first attempt at a pdd. I'll start to add
> extra details over the next couple of days.
>
> Is 8 the right number? And can someone who knows how fix the ones in
> the repository to have more meaningful file names
This is a slightly confused first attempt at a pdd. I'll start to add
extra details over the next couple of days.
Is 8 the right number? And can someone who knows how fix the ones in
the repository to have more meaningful file names?
Alex Gough
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