On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 09:08:17 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld
wrote:
On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 08:05:49 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Periodic fractions.
Or transcendental numbers, for that matter, but arbitrary !=
infinite. A max_expansion template parameter could be useful
here.
For my use case I'm less concerned with absolute resolution
than with preserving the information in the smaller operand
when dealing with large magnitude differences.
We have rational (two bigint, one for the numerator and one for
the denominator), which I like better than floatingpoint (it's
more expressive).
