A floating-point puzzle

[Jouko Koski]

"Lars T. Kyllingstad" <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> wrote:

> After the above code has finished, the variable B contains the radix of 
> the computer's numerical system.

> I guess I can just drop this part from my code, then. ;)

Well, there is certain likelihood that decimal floating point will reappear 
in the future. However, determining the radix may be unnecessary, because 
decimal representations may get types of their own. Run-time computation of 
radix is bad anyway.

-- 
Jouko