"Andy Little" <andy@servocomm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:dg6d4r$la2$1@sea.gmane.org...
"Daryle Walker" <darylew@hotmail.com> wrote
OK. When you say "arbitrary precision," you mean that a precision limit must be set (at run-time) before an operation. Most people use "arbitrary precision" to mean unlimited precision, not your "run-time cut-off" precision.
Are there really libraries that have unlimited precision? What happens when the result of a computation is irrational?
Just to put some light into this discussion, there are unlimited precision libraries. e.g. http://keithbriggs.info/xrc.html If you ask yourself how to represent an irrational number, first you have to read about computable number. Whenever you see that, the solution should be right there. Salú, LG
regards Andy Little
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