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Re: IDL is not accurate enough! [message #62407 is a reply to message #62356]

Mon, 08 September 2008 06:45

Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997

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Ron,
that code sounds interesting. Can you provide me with a direct link to the
page. The new interface is completely unusable for me and search does not
give any results.

Thanks,
Haje

"rtk" <oneelkruns@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e32f4688-b58e-4f27-b2f9-17faea24285a@i24g2000prf.google groups.com...
> 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
>

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		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 28 August 2008 13:50
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Foldy Lajos on Thu, 28 August 2008 09:42
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: David Fanning on Thu, 28 August 2008 09:35
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: noahh.schwartz on Thu, 11 September 2008 07:10
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: rtk on Thu, 04 September 2008 11:46
		Re: IDL is not accurate enough! By: Haje Korth on Mon, 08 September 2008 06:45

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