I have another interrogation. Please take it as a student/newbie
whatever question.
I think 0.1 should be considered as a ScaledDecimal so that we could
write 0.1 asFraction and have 1/10...
What you desire is admirable but no longer practical as it would break a great
many existing
What you desire is admirable but no longer practical as it would break a great
many existing programs.
Yep, that's a BIG problem :-)
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between different manufactures computers. After a while, computers supported
integers, floating point numbers and IBM mainframes had packed decimal
I don't know what you are working on but if you use fractions for what you are
doing it would be interesting to hear about how you use them and your results.
Because fractions are kept as an integer numerator and an integer denominator,
they probably take up more memory than floats but less
Waaah, belief and plausibility as sum over numbers; shudder;
political-systems-failure through machine calculations; market-meltdown
through machine calculations; poverty-for-everyone through machine
calculations :( Anyways, have you compared to Pei Wang's NARS (or perhaps
his The limitation
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:27:09 +0100, cdrick wrote:
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I think all this is premature optimization for me :) as I'm only
building an early prototype (I'm doing a start of Dempster Shafer
Theory [1] implementation (actually Transferable Belief Model)... and
it's won't reach a big size for a while.
