At 03:46 PM 8/29/00 -0400, Eric Roode wrote:
>Okay, brainstorming here ... bear with me.
>
>What if limit-of-error precision were tracked, as Perl tracks tainted
>variables when you tell it to?
Can't be done that way, unfortunately. You need to enforce significant
digits at every step of the cal
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>At 02:49 PM 8/29/00 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>>On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
>>
>> > I'd like to see every number bundled with a "precision" attribute.
>>
>>While that might be useful for simple calculations, I expect it would
>>simply get in the way and slow
