"Simpler" bigfloat and complex bigfloat arithmetic
Subject: "Simpler" bigfloat and complex bigfloat arithmetic
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:57:47 -0800
There are lots of possible classes. It is easy to start programming up
real-interval:to
quad-float:to
polar-double-float:to
projective-rational:to [includes infinity]
affine-rational:to [includes infinity]
...
and then maxima:to
must be extended also
That's what I tried to systematize with the lisp generic package. I don't
know that I succeeded in making it as simple as possible.
I think that bigfloat / complex bigfloat is probably the most useful for
maxima.
RJF