Re: It's a bug? Re: Strange problem
- Posted by Jiri Babor <J.Babor at GNS.CRI.NZ> Mar 20, 2000
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Kat wrote: >> I have heard this one so many times I am getting a bit curious too: >> what is exactly your problem that requires higher precision than to >> about 16 decimal places? Even Bill Gate$' fabulous wealth can be >> expressed quite accurately, to the last cent in fact, using just 16 >> digits. That's plenty astronomical to me! jiri > >But when i measure plant cell nuclii radius in parsecs, 16 digits isn't >enough. In fact, only string math will be accurate enough, since you can use >as many digits as you wish, 16^16 if you wish. Sounds like a math library is >needed. >shrug > >Kat What's your point? Advocacy of silly units? I thought it was *you* who moaned about the wasteful manner of string storage in Euphoria just recently. (Btw, I happen to agree with you on that one. In fact I would go to the extreme of asking Rob to discard his dogmatic blinkers and give us fast, fixed size element arrays, directly mappable to memory. 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 byte elements would suit me fine.) Tossing a kat among the pidgeons... jiri