4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
11:28 a.m.
From: Paul A Bristow
From: Alexander Nasonov
I have not get a chance to study the subject yet but I wonder why don't you just set a precision to some huge number, say 32767 or INT_MAX?
This would be hugely wasteful as it would convert everything with 32767 decimal digits, of which, even with 256-bit floating point, 32267 digits would be noise!
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