From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 23:02:50 GMT
Date: 2001-03-09T23:02:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcck85yeeat.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98bbbg$jmf$1@nh.pace.co.uk
"Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> writes:
> This is a hopeless mission. Consider the instant you're row reduction
> results in 1/3 - can you put that into a computer *without* an approximation
> and still do math on it?
Yes. What's the problem? A rational arithmetic package can do exact
arithmetic on 1/3 or any other rational number you can name.
>...I know of no general
> purpose languages that are going to give you math on that big a scale right
> out of the box.
Lisp. Smalltalk. &c.
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-09 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-09 18:58 Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-09 19:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-09 20:44 ` David Starner
2001-03-09 23:12 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-10 2:56 ` David Starner
2001-03-10 11:37 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-10 6:08 ` tmoran
2001-03-09 21:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-03-09 23:02 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2001-03-09 23:28 ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-10 16:49 ` Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-10 11:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-03-09 20:37 ` Brian Catlin
2001-03-09 21:26 ` JP Thornley
2001-03-09 21:59 ` Tucker Taft
2001-03-15 8:33 ` Modular type (Re: Large numbers) Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-15 10:58 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-15 11:12 ` Hans Georg Schaathun
2001-03-15 16:24 ` Tucker Taft
2001-03-10 1:42 ` Large numbers (or is Ada the choice for me?) Keith Thompson
2001-03-19 20:48 ` Robert I. Eachus
2001-03-20 3:33 ` Brian Rogoff
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox