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arbitrary precision support opinions
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
arbitrary precision support opinions |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:45:46 -0500 |
On 21-Dec-2007, Martin McDermott wrote:
| Hello
| I wondering what people think about arbitrary precision support(mostly for
| large integers).
|
| I'm pretty new to Octave, but it does sound pretty handy and like it would
| put it a step above Matlab. Ive also been looking for a interesting project
| for awhile now, so I'm not expecting/demanding this feature out of anyone.
|
| So, do you guys think it would be useful? Would it be used by anyone else?
| Any potential problems or general objections?
|
| At first it could just be a simple ifndef to choose, and maybe later it
| could be a option during runtime (I'm not sure how yet).
|
| This would be a pretty big project for me so Id just like some input about
| it first.
I think a better place to discuss this would be the maintainers list.
jwe