Long-float variant giving more precision to numerical computations.
Subject: Long-float variant giving more precision to numerical computations.
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:02:08 -0700
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
<raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> A quick fix for that, and everything compiles. I have to say it is
> rather nice to see all those extra digits. There are a few issues
> though. Printing large floats doesn't print out all the digits.
Yeah. There is a literal constant 16 in EXPLODEN.
I guess that should become a function of the float size,
s.t. like ceiling((mantissa #bits)/(log(10)/log(2))).
Or maybe there is a way to specify a format directive
which just means "print all available digits".
best
Robert