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arbitrary precision library - preference?

• Posted by Lucius L. Hilley III <euphoria at u?km?r.com> May 22, 2008
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> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > Jason Gade wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > > Doesn't
> > > one of those already exist in the archive?
> > 
> > There are some:
> > 1/ Extended Precision Arithmetic (A. Tammer)
> > 2/ Big Number Arithmetic (Craig Gilbert), but which is somewhat buggy.
> > 3/ Big Math (Matt)
> > 4/ Calculations with long numbers (D. Money)
> > 
> > They are more or less practical, more or less extensible.
> > 
> > They will cover the basic 4 operations, not sure how they extend to
> > arbitrary
> > precision real computations - they don't appear to handle anything related
> > to
> > fuzziness or roundoff. I haven't investigated them thoroughl - I have some
> > unsubmitted
> > stuff. Still, I prefer using other languages or software to experiment in
> > these
> > areas.
> > 
> > CChris
> > 
> > > j.

Any of you have a preference on those libs.  I looked over A. Tammer's years ago
and it didn't appear to work right was using VooDoo magic.  I couldn't extended
it.

    Lucius L. Hilley III - Unkmar