Hey all, I'm very interested in using Racket for the purposes of numerical analysis. Specifically, I am interested in using Racket as my test bed for implementing simple numerical algorithms which operate on IEEE 754 single precision floats and compare those results against a ground truth, ideally, the exact result. Racket appears to have great support for double precision floats, but I haven't found any functions that correspond to single precision floats.
Some questions: 1. Should I be implementing my own versions of the flonum arithmetic functions that operate on single precision floats? (See these functions: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/flonums.html#%28part._.Flonum_.Arithmetic%29) 2. What about other support functions that require knowledge of the bit patterns of the floats? (See https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/flonum.html#%28part._.Measuring_.Floating-.Point_.Error%29 or https://docs.racket-lang.org/math/flonum.html#%28part._.Low-.Level_.Flonum_.Operations%29) I would *love* to use Racket for this task and ideally, I need to have access to all the functions on the pages linked above but for single precision floats (half precision floats would also be nice!). Have I missed something obvious? -Dale Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
