30 Jan
2009
30 Jan
'09
11:09 a.m.
One question I have is the precision needed. My current set are 50 decimal digits, more than enough for any foreseeable floating point hardware. John's current code in the Boost.Math package allows much more, and the constants now defined are to 100 decimal digits. This allows really accurate computation using an arbitrary precision system like Victor Shoup's NTL (GPL License) (or a Boost equivalent if we can produce one - a GSoC project?).
My question is - what precision would be useful?
Not sure, but I guess if we got organised (Ha!), we could generate them programatically using arbitrary precision arithmetic and just tweek the precision as required? John.