From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,890e7bb13b3c2a7f X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.226.41 with SMTP id rp9mr440476pbc.4.1350644729169; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.138.195 with SMTP id qs3mr255171pbb.11.1350644729112; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Path: s9ni21683pbb.0!nntp.google.com!kt20no4398912pbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:05:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <50812fd6$0$6628$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=97.117.199.50; posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG NNTP-Posting-Host: 97.117.199.50 References: <29fc1667-46f8-40b5-aef9-bea87dc862b4@googlegroups.com> <50812fd6$0$6628$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <65b7eb6d-5de9-4309-83f9-9a8a3c4d9f2e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How to get high-precision floating point--MPFR From: Jerry Injection-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:05:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-10-19T04:05:28-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, October 19, 2012 3:48:15 AM UTC-7, Georg Bauhaus wrote: > On 19.10.12 10:57, Jerry wrote: > > Here is what I want to do > > > > type Giant_Float is digits 30; > > One possible solution has a description here: > > http://web.am.qub.ac.uk/users/j.parker/miscellany/arbitrary/README.arbitrary That looks interesting. The readme says it is done entirely in integers but suitably optimized runs 1/2 to 2/3 the speed of Fortran quad precision. Jerry