Re: standard representations

[David Mitchell]

Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> BigFloat could well build on BigInt for its "mantissa" and have another
> int-of-some-kind as its exponent. We don't need to pack it tightly
> so we should probably avoid IEEE-like hidden MSB. The size of exponent 
> is one area where "known range of int" is important.

Or we could go the really obscene route and implement bigfloat using
bigints for both mantissa *and* exponent. Not much danger of
overflow then ;-)