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Re: Current implementation of exp() is faulty.

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.c??> May 21, 2008
• 761 views

CChris wrote:
> 
> Jason Gade wrote:
> > 
> > Right. And what I was trying to say was that converting from double to
> > string
> > to double again loses information. Better to do one conversion and compare
> > apples
> > to apples.
> > 
> > I think that CChris is talking about an arbitrary precision library. 
> 
> The parsercan return any nmber of bits in exact mode. Otherwise, it returns
> as many bits as the number of digits provided allows in a safe way.

Never mind.

Either you are agreeing with me and I just don't see it, or no matter how simply
I try and explain you are missing it.

I thought that we had already resolved the issue.

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.