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Re: IDL is not accurate enough! [message #62353 is a reply to message #62192]

Thu, 04 September 2008 13:33

Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article
<e32f4688-b58e-4f27-b2f9-17faea24285a@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
rtk <oneelkruns@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 28, 2:50 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
>> Mathematica can do arbitrary-precision arithmetic ... with hundreds of digits,
>> if necessary. Don't expect it to be fast, though, as it is all done
>> in software, not with the hardware floating-point unit with which we
>> normally do single- and double-precision arithmetic.
>
> Check on the IDL code contrib site sometime next week. I just
> uploaded DLMs that add arbitrary precision floating point as well as
> integer and rational types to IDL. These are wrappers on the MPFR and
> GMP libraries, respectively. Caveat emptor, but I'll answer emails.
> You will need to recompile if using something later than IDL 6.3.
> Examples included.
>
> Ron Kneusel
> rkneusel@ittvis.com

So, when you say DLMs, does that mean Windows only? It means nothing
to me as a Linux and Mac user.

Ken Bowman

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		IDL is not accurate enough! By: noahh.schwartz on Thu, 28 August 2008 09:30
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Haje Korth on Tue, 02 September 2008 05:20
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 05 September 2008 09:53
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: MP on Fri, 05 September 2008 09:18
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 05 September 2008 08:57
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 04 September 2008 13:33
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: pgrigis on Thu, 11 September 2008 07:44
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: noahh.schwartz on Mon, 15 September 2008 02:37
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: pgrigis on Thu, 11 September 2008 07:35
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: pgrigis on Mon, 15 September 2008 06:40

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