bigfloat

[Frank Torte]

Paul D. Anderson Wrote:

> Is there an active project to develop arbitrary-precision floating point numbers for D?
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> I've got a little extra time at the moment and would like to contribute if I can. I've done some work in floating point arithmetic and would be willing to start/complete/add to/test/design/etc. such a project. What I hope NOT to do is to re-implement someone else's perfectly adequate code.
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> If no such project exists I'd like to start one. If there are a bunch of half-finished attempts (I have one of those), let's pool our efforts.
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> I know several contributors here have a strong interest and/or background in numerics. I'd like to hear inputs regarding:
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> a) the merits (or lack) of having an arbitrary-precision floating point type
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> b) the features and functions that should be included.
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> Just to be clear -- I'm talking about a library addition here, not a change in the language.
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> Paul
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When you can use a number in D that is more than the number of atoms in the known universe why would you want a bigger number?