#### [Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:10:43PM +0200: Shlomi Fish] > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Brent Dax wrote: > > > *After* you've answered those three questions, proceed to ask why we're > > doing it ourselves instead. > > > > Fine, let me ask this: why we're doing it ourselves instead of using gmp?
>From the gmp documentation: "Note that the mpf functions are not intended as a smooth extension to IEEE P754 arithmetic. In particular results obtained on one computer often differ from the results on a computer with a different word size." And previous discussion decided that a decimal arithmetic was more useful for the big number library than any other form. Alex Gough -- Dear Mary, I yearn for you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army