At 10:14 AM 1/2/01 +0000, David Mitchell wrote:
>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 ;-)
The sick thing was, I was actually considering this... :)
Dan
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