Bob Tennent wrote: > >|Possibly, but if two scripts were being maintained then I'd maintain > >|that identical output is the more critical thing to have (and, yes, in > >|the 16th decimal place - no optimising compiler re-orders floating point > >|instructions without being told that unsafe optimisations are allowed > >|precisely because the results can differ, the same algorithm over the > >|same precision of floating point representation should produce *exactly* > >|the same output regardless of language) > > David: I'm pleased to report that after replacing Nikhil's own formatting > function (which truncated decimal parts rather than > rounding!) by > > string.format(%.., ...) > > I'm getting exact matches with musixflx.c output. It seems Nikhil didn't > find the string.format( ) function in the manual :+)
Marvellous - and as per the subsequent emails, it looks like longer-term we'll be heading towards retiring musixflx.c completely. David ------------------------------- TeX-music@tug.org mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
