Re: [boost] Interest in an arbitrary precision library?

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-06 18:23:45

"Joel Eidsath" <jeidsath_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:431DCDEF.1020501_at_gmail.com...
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> Andy Little wrote:
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>>On the contrary,  conversion from rational to float is an example of a "lossy
>>conversion".
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> Wrong.  It is sometimes lossy, it is sometimes exact.

Thats true but irrelevant, because you cant tell, given only the resulting 
floating point representation, whether your
 floating-point value is representing an approximation to some value which may 
be rational or itrrational or  alternatively is an exact representation of a 
rational value.

regards
Andy Little