On June 12, 2005 6:18 PM Tim Daly wrote: > you're right, of course. > my mind is mush at the moment. > i've been driving all week.
Yah, that'll do it to ya ... :) How's CMU? Seriously, I think that there *are* some issues that should be dealt with here. There may very well be some situations that could make more efficient and/or effective use of Axiom's "infinite precision" floats. I expect that just as in the case of "infinite" integers, there may be some better ways and some worse ways of doing calculations with this objects. For that matter, mathematically speaking just what is Axiom's Float type? Is it formally equivalent (though obviously not computationally equivalent) to FRAC INT? How does it relate to standard (IEEE ?) definitions of floating point? How does it differ mathematically from the reals, c.f. RealClosure, etc. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
