Philippe A. Bouchard wrote: > Hi there, > > Like I mentionned before, it would be great for Boost to have an > infinite precision floating point number. You can see an example > here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/keithmbriggs/doubledouble.html. Of > course, the doubles could be replaced by long doubles, a muldiv() > could be easily added, the exponents could be increased as well, etc. > > Maybe someone can ask how to calculate trigonometric functions > with less precise versions and so on. It would be really great for > Boost to have this user-defined precision because I am pretty sure > research centers will be interested.
This quad double library is easier to compile & test: http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/mpdist.html Philippe _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
