On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:36:02 -0500, Justin C. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> SAGE could internally compute with a few more digits of precision >> than requested, and always output numbers with the last few digits >> truncated. Would that be less confusing? > > I believe that this is the way the IEEE floating point standard > (which is implemented as 'native' floating point by most chips today) > does it: more bits are computed; only the promised bits are displayed.
I'm fine with doing that, since it's fairly simple to change. How many more bits should be computed though? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
