On 5/18/2016 1:22 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 20:14:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/18/2016 4:48 AM, deadalnix wrote:
Typo: arbitrary precision FP. Meaning some soft float that grows as big as
necessary to not lose precision à la BitInt but for floats.
0.10 is not representable in a binary format regardless of precision.
You should ask the gcc guys how they do it, but you can surely represent this as
a fraction,
Right.
so I see no major blocker.
Now try the square root of 2. Or pi, e, etc. The irrational numbers are, by
definition, not representable as a ratio.
