--- In [email protected], "Rory Daulton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm afraid I can't help you on the actual question of this thread. But I do > want to encourage you to continue in your math programming in Delphi 2. > I am really encouraged by this. Even before yours and Martin's comments, I was intuiting the Delphi was delivering often 18-digit and at least 17 digit precision in cirmumstances where the analogous code in BC++ (albeit an older version) didn't seem to get quite so close with the long double type in the last couple of digits, though admittedly the results were still not bad, especially when compared to MSVC++ which doesn't even seem to support the long double type and gives only 16 good digits if one is lucky. I should note that I started these meanderings with VB4 which has at best a 15-digit double type, though the interface is so user friendly and the coding so forgiving. Upgrading to VB6 courtesy of a good ebay deal with the hopes of greater precision through the CDec typing hasn't come to fruition, since the Decimal type, which is really an integer I believe, was never fully implemented. FYI, I have downloaded the BCD20 high precision package, but I must admit the high end C++ coding is so inscrutable to my amateur eyeballs that I have no idea whether I could use the routines in my bush league C/C++ explorations, expecially since my compliers are pretty ancient. That said, it would be so sweet to learn how to code some high precision routines and compile them to a DLL for export to Delphi programs. Of course, this may not be so easy to do, giving issues of type compatiblity. Thank you so much for your feedback. Since my D2 code to date gives desired results on most computers I have tried except my main computer, the lesson to be learned is that I may have to used another computer if I want to see the best results, and when I shop for a new computer I should be sure to take one or two little Delphi programs on a flash card to test whether the processor interacts with my Delphi work in the fashion I desire to see. Les ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
