On Wed, April 15, 2009 5:24 pm, David Carlisle wrote: > > >> 5) NIST noted that UnitsML has "reported digits", so 9.17 \ne 9.170 > > Could this be made to relate to the existing notion of precision in > > http://www.openmath.org/cd/bigfloat1.xhtml#bigfloatprec It certainly could do, but we don't even need to go that far (and I'm not sure bigfloatprec gives us any advantage over bigfloat)
<OMA> <OMS name="bigfloat" cd="bigfloat1"/> <OMI> 917 </OMI> <OMI> 10 </OMI> <OMI> -2 </OMI> </OMA> is not the same as <OMA> <OMS name="bigfloat" cd="bigfloat1"/> <OMI> 9170 </OMI> <OMI> 10 </OMI> <OMI> -3 </OMI> </OMA> though the FMP says they are equal, whihc I guess is OK. James Davenport Visiting Full Professor, University of Waterloo Otherwise: Hebron & Medlock Professor of Information Technology and Chairman, Powerful Computing WP, University of Bath OpenMath Content Dictionary Editor and Programme Chair, OpenMath 2009 IMU Committee on Electronic Information and Communication _______________________________________________ Om3 mailing list [email protected] http://openmath.org/mailman/listinfo/om3
