Re: [boost] Ann: Floating Point Utilities Review starts today

From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-26 15:15:52

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Johan Råde <rade_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> John Phillips wrote:
>
> > I am also concerned about merging it into the MathTools library. That is
> > certainly where it belongs in a logical sense,
>
> I'm not so sure about that.
> Mathematics deals with real numbers.
> Computer science deals with floating point numbers.

There is a whole branch of mathematics (Numerical Analysis) that deals w/
numeric representation, and I don't know any mathematicians who aren't at
least aware of it.

Jon