[Axiom-developer] [#167 Infinite Floats Domain] Float, Real, RealClosure

2005-06-14 Thread wyscc
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/167InfiniteFloatsDomain/diff -- ++added: >From William Sit, Tuesday June 14 20:06:00 -4:00 Subject: Float, Real, RealClosure Tim wrote: >This raises the same kind of implementation issue that indefinite computation >raises except that i

[Axiom-developer] [#167 Infinite Floats Domain] Float and DFloat

2005-06-13 Thread wyscc
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/167InfiniteFloatsDomain/diff -- ??changed: -$m$ has 53 bits stored in a 52 bit field (not including sign, note that in base 2, the most significant digit normalized must be 1, so no need to store it!) and $e$ has 11 bits (including sign, r

[Axiom-developer] [#167 Infinite Floats Domain] Float is arbitrary precision, not infinite precision

2005-06-13 Thread wyscc
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/167InfiniteFloatsDomain/diff -- ??changed: -In 'FLOAT', conceptually the infinite precision floating point system, is basically also finite precision floating point system, with the ability to increase precision as requested. However, this

[Axiom-developer] [#167 Infinite Floats Domain] Float and DFloat

2005-06-13 Thread wyscc
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/167InfiniteFloatsDomain/diff -- ??changed: -What is the domain FLOAT if not already "infinite but bounded What is the domain 'FLOAT' if not already "infinite but bounded ++added: ++added: >From Tim Daly Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:17:54 -0500

[Axiom-developer] [#167 Infinite Floats Domain] ??? FLOAT

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Page
Changes http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/mathaction/167InfiniteFloatsDomain/diff -- Tim, What is the domain FLOAT if not already "infinite but bounded length"? I thought that FLOAT has internal representation based on a pair of "infinite but bounder length" INT's. >From 'float.spad.pamphlet'