OpenEuphoria

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(),