Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost Extended Floating-Point

Subject: Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost Extended Floating-Point
From: Christopher Kormanyos (e_float_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-31 02:59:15

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From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] Name and Namespace for Potential Boost Extended Floating-Point

I guess you know the BigNumber proposal from John Maddock. While this 
library provides some wrappers to 3rd party libraries, nothing forbid to 
include an arbitrary precision real and an integer with arbitrary 
digits. So, if John accepts, the namespace could be big_number. The 
classes could just be named real, integer, ...

Best,
Vicente

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Yes, I believe we are synchronized with John.
(He is assisting us.)

In addition to the abstract and generic big_number, we also want to
provide the extended floating-point type standalone.

Thank you for your suggestion.

Sincerely, Chris.