RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:12 PM 9/10/2001 -0700, Hong Zhang wrote: > > Uri Guttman > > > we are planning automatic over/underflow to bigfloat. so there is no > > > need for traps. they could be provided at the time of the > > > conversion to big*. > > > > OK. But will Perl support signaling and non-signaling NANs? >

RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Hong Zhang
> Uri Guttman > > we are planning automatic over/underflow to bigfloat. so there is no > > need for traps. they could be provided at the time of the > > conversion to big*. > > OK. But will Perl support signaling and non-signaling NANs? I don't think we should go for automatic overflow/underf

RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread David Whipp
Uri Guttman > we are planning automatic over/underflow to bigfloat. so there is no > need for traps. they could be provided at the time of the > conversion to big*. OK. But will Perl support signaling and non-signaling NANs?

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Eric Roode
Dan Sugalski wrote: >Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the interpreter >assembly language. I've got: [...] > >Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while since I've >done numeric work. I'm not a math weenie, but I would thing gamma(x) would be of use. Also

RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:58 AM 9/10/2001 -0700, David Whipp wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the > > interpreter assembly language. I've got: >[...] > > Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while > > since I've done numeric work. > >I'm not sur

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DW" == David Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DW> Dan Sugalski wrote: >> Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the >> interpreter assembly language. I've got: DW> [...] >> Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while >> since I've done numer

RE: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-10 Thread David Whipp
Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the > interpreter assembly language. I've got: [...] > Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while > since I've done numeric work. I'm not sure where this belongs, but I'd really like to have a usage