On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dave Abrahams
on Sat Aug 27 2011, John Maddock
wrote: * Should we have a single unified concept for all number types in Boost.... if yes what happens when the next latest and greatest library comes along and requires slightly different concepts to function efficiently? What I'm saying is it's pretty hard to get this right.
This is to say nothing of the semantic vagaries of limited-precision floating point. It's almost impossible to even create reliable mathematical concepts that accomodate floats, doubles, et. al.
Ain't that the plain truth. I can't speak for accommodating floats, doubles, etc. We pretty much decided to go with float or Single across the board for precision reasons for what we're doing. --
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