3 Apr
2012
3 Apr
'12
1:01 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:49 AM, John Maddock <boost.regex@virgin.net> wrote:
Just a crazy idea ... what about if the exponent is a big integer as
well? And the mantissa ... guess you can go all crazy, hope this is supported by the library!
Not yet, but not impossible (other than it messing up std::numeric_limits<>::max_exponent). Of course making the mantissa arbitrary precision is definitely not possible - unless you can tell me how exactly many digits Pi has ;-)
Well I'd imagine that maybe you could evaluate the precision of, e.g., pi on-demand and lazily. I would consider that a form of arbitrary precision. I'd also imagine such a technique outside the (present) scope of this library. - Jeff