Is there interest in my e_float library for potential inclusion in boost?
e_float is a portable C++ system for multiple-precision floating-point calculations and calculations of special functions.
What is multiple precision floating point and how does this differ from float, double, or long double ?
From memory I believe there are two key differences:
1) It performs calculations in base 10 not base 2 2) It performs calculations at 100 decimal digit precision and with a greatly expanded exponent range compared to say [long] double. There is tentative support for use of e_float in current Boost.Math trunk (via boost/math/bindings/e_float.hpp), which actually proved to be a very useful test of our code as this is the first time it's been exposed to a real-number type that's quite so obviously base 10 as this one. Some more general comments: * It obviously would need quite a lot of "Boostification" before becoming a formal submission. * There are some (mostly interface) design choices that our perhaps questionable, but which no doubt can be worked out. * There *may* be a license issue, as ACM claim copyright over all submissions to their journal (including code). I gather that ACM may be amenable to derivative works being published under a different / more liberal license, but that would have to be worked out formally at some point I guess. HTH, John.