[boost] Re: number<64> proposal

From: Craigp (craigp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-21 01:10:39

You might try http://more.btexact.com/people/briggsk2/XR.html.

HTH,
--craig

"Philippe A. Bouchard" <philippe_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:bht0pt$mth$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> 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
>
>
>
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