Re: bigfixed.e - bignum.e
- Posted by Lucius Hilley <l3euphoria at bellsouth.net> Jun 28, 2003
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----- Original Message ----- From: <gertie at visionsix.com> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: Re: bigfixed.e - bignum.e > > > On 28 Jun 2003, at 14:13, Lucius Hilley wrote: > > > > > Who wants me to complete the documentation and distribute my Bignumber > > library? > > It supports floating point math. > > Such as: > > 3.75 + 1.25 = 5 > > 3.75 - 1.25 = 2.5 > > 3.75 * 1.25 = 4.6875 > > 3.75 / 1.25 = 3 > > Is that the current limit of what it does? No idea of the number of decimal > points, etc? > > Kat Limit? No! Short example? Yes! I really should have expanded more... Bignum handles that much. Number of Decimal points is .. how do I say it? Configurable? Adjustable? Settable? There are some limitations to the lib. It isn't good with converting numbers from 1 setting to another. Convesion almost guarntees loss of data. Depends on the values what your are converting from and to. bigfixed.e also handles, logs(), powers(),