Re: It's a bug? Re: Strange problem
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
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