Paul D. Anderson Wrote: > Is there an active project to develop arbitrary-precision floating point > numbers for D? > > I've got a little extra time at the moment and would like to contribute if I > can. I've done some work in floating point arithmetic and would be willing to > start/complete/add to/test/design/etc. such a project. What I hope NOT to do > is to re-implement someone else's perfectly adequate code. > > If no such project exists I'd like to start one. If there are a bunch of > half-finished attempts (I have one of those), let's pool our efforts. > > I know several contributors here have a strong interest and/or background in > numerics. I'd like to hear inputs regarding: > > a) the merits (or lack) of having an arbitrary-precision floating point type > > b) the features and functions that should be included. > > Just to be clear -- I'm talking about a library addition here, not a change > in the language. > > Paul > >
When you can use a number in D that is more than the number of atoms in the known universe why would you want a bigger number?
