| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Thorsten Ottosen | Sent: 07 November 2004 11:08 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: [boost] Re: Re: Math functions - requirements 'spec' | | | | F*** C comparability!!! (I gotta go make that bumper | sticker suCks | | (with the C in a different color)) | | the language should have died a decade ago. IMO tt should never have been invented ! | | In case anyone else doesn't get it, C++ is simply a better | | language. Staying tied to a dinosaur is foolish. But we already are :-(( | It might be worth looking at what benefits we can get out of | a templated version. | | Would it for example, be possible to use the code with a | big_floats class? Don't forget that many functions are simply evaluations of polynomial functions - whose coefficients depend on the the float-point (mainly significand) bits count. So there exist already coefficients for Cephes 128-bit reals, and arbitrary precision 100 decimal digits, for example, for which the C code might call big_double normal_quantile(big_double p); // Quantile of probability p. but C++ would be able to chose this using a templated version. Suggest you look at Walter Browns and PJP's TR-1? Paul Paul A Bristow Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal, Cumbria UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830 +44 7714 330204 mailto: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com