28 Aug
2008
28 Aug
'08
12:52 a.m.
On 27 Aug 2008, at 15:29, Robert Ramey wrote:
Daryle Walker wrote:
I have an alternate suggestion: what about continued fractions? Turn the floating point value into a list of integers. This works no matter what f.p. systems the source and destination use. You just need a portable integer serialization format.
which we already have.
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I'm don't have enough time to review the suggestion in the detail it probably deserves. But a cursory look shows a lot of imagination.
It will just be horribly inefficient. A text representation will be faster and more compact. Matthias