RE: [boost] Math constants for naive and gurus? - which constants do you want?

From: Noah Stein (noah_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-25 17:29:39

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From: Ed Brey [mailto:edbrey_at_[hidden]]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:45 PM
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Math constants for naive and gurus? - which
constants do you want?

> in boost::math would be fine.  Of course, I find the concept of
> representing an irrational number using a rational class kind of
> amusing, but I suppose it might have practical value.

Maybe there should be an irrational number class?  I should think it would
only take minutes for somebody to come up with an exact representation of pi
or e in such a class.  :-)