Shmuel, Perhaps you can use your algorithm for 128-bit floating point numbers. I'm just trying to think of an application.
David On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. > > > Yesterday I have written a function that converts a binary 64-bit > floating point number to Math::BigFloat. > It was very interesting, with a lot of playing with bits and exponents, > until I realized that such numbers are really just 'double's, > > and are supported anyway. > > > oh well. > > Shmuel. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
