At 03:11 PM 7/14/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:09:07 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> >Precision is a useful thing with bigfloats so something like 1/3 doesn't
> >chew up all your available memory.
>
>1/3 would better be represented as a ratio, 1 over 3.
>
>We've been here b
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:09:07 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>Precision is a useful thing with bigfloats so something like 1/3 doesn't
>chew up all your available memory.
1/3 would better be represented as a ratio, 1 over 3.
We've been here before, haven't we?
Ratio's, or whatever you'd want to
At 03:26 PM 7/13/2001 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:09:07PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Depending on what you do with them, precision (or, rather,
> > significant digits) is a useful concept for integers as well. Just
> > because you have, for example, an integer w
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:09:07PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Depending on what you do with them, precision (or, rather,
> significant digits) is a useful concept for integers as well. Just
> because you have, for example, an integer with 43 digits doesn't
> mean that all 43 are actually useful
At 04:55 PM 7/12/2001 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
>John Porter wrote:
> >
> > David L. Nicol wrote:
> > > First off, I'm going to pound on one of my deceased horses a bit:
> >
> > I'll add one obligatory thwack with my own barbed flog, David. Hear hear.
> >
> > > > my Num$dec = 4.0;
>
