[boost] number<64> proposal

From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-19 06:13:55

Hi there,

    Like I mentionned before, it would be great for Boost to have an
infinite precision floating point number.  You can see an example here:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/keithmbriggs/doubledouble.html.  Of course, the
doubles could be replaced by long doubles, a muldiv() could be easily added,
the exponents could be increased as well, etc.

    Maybe someone can ask how to calculate trigonometric functions with less
precise versions and so on.  It would be really great for Boost to have this
user-defined precision because I am pretty sure research centers will be
interested.

Philippe