bigfloat

[grauzone]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Paul D. Anderson wrote:
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>
>>> Paul D. Anderson wrote:
>>>> b) the features and functions that should be included.
>>> I'd say NaNs and unordered comparisons. In other words, it should 
>>> support the same semantics as float, double and real do.
>>>
>>> If you've got the time and interest, adding all the functions in 
>>> std.math would be great!
>>
>> I'm not sure I can sign up for ALL of std.math. I'm sure I'll need
>> help.  I can do roots, powers and transcendental functions, though.
>> Maybe not very efficiently (power series).
>>
>> (If very high precision numbers are questionable, how valuable are
>> high precision sine and cosine??)
>>
>> Paul
> 
> Would be great if we could enlist Don's help. Don? :o)
> 
> In only slightly related news, the "new, new" Phobos2 offers custom 
> floating-point numbers, see
> 
> http://erdani.dreamhosters.com/d/web/phobos/std_numeric.html
> 
> They aren't infinite precision (which makes their utility orthogonal on 
> bigfloat's), but they allow fine tweaking of floating point storage. 
> Want to cram floats in 16 or 24 bits? Care about numbers in [0, 1) at 
> maximum precision? Give CustomFloat a shot.

Sorry for the uninformed question, but do these types with with std.math?

> 
> Andrei