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

From: Joel Eidsath (jeidsath_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-06 18:58:39

>
>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.
>
>  
>
And so...?  I fail to see your point.  Are you trying to support the 
original poster who said just to use boost::rational? 

Joel Eidsath