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From: Philippe A. Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-21 12:16:27


Stefan Slapeta wrote:

>
> Is there any special reason why there has never been any fixed point
> library submitted to boost? IMHO, there would be much more reasonable
> applications for that than for a floating point lib.

Yeah, a fixed point library is also interesting but first of all we have to
find a precise pow() function that can handle rational exponents. I do not
recommend using x^y = e^(x * ln(y))... for those who have encountered the
problem.

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Philippe A. Bouchard

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