[boost] Re: number<64> proposal

From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-19 12:54:00

Philippe A. Bouchard wrote:
> 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.

This quad double library is easier to compile & test:
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/mpdist.html

Philippe