Andrei Alexandrescu: > 2. Find a more intuitive interface for feqrel, i.e. using decimal digits > for precision etc. The definition in std.math: "the number of mantissa > bits which are equal in x and y" loses 90% of the readership at the word > "mantissa". You want something intuitive that people can immediately > picture.
If you assume that a reader of those docs may know what the FP mantissa is, then the solution is not to remove the word "mantissa" from there, but to add a link to Wikipedia page, or/and to just show an image like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IEEE_754_Double_Floating_Point_Format.svg If you want to use a function about floating point approximations you need to know how a FP is represented. Bye, bearophile
