Re: [boost] Interest in an arbitrary precision library?

Andras Erdei wrote:

i think he is suggesting that radix representation may be good (efficient etc) for integers, but is certainly not a good way to represent non-integers

float is worthless, huh?

num/den pairs are much better, and there are several other alternatives (representations based on exponential functions, continued fraction expansions, composition of linear fractional transformations etc)

I don't think that you have a good conception of the effciency costs involved in doing large number math with those things. Joel Eidsath