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Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] Stable Maxima version on Gentoo
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Camm Maguire |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] Stable Maxima version on Gentoo |
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Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:42:58 -0400 |
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Greetings!
Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Camm> Greetings!
> Camm> "Stewart W. Wilson" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> The fix does not seem to be exactly trivial. Please see the attached
> >> paper by Steele and White from 1990.
> >>
>
> Camm> Thanks so much for this reference!
>
> Camm> Unfortunately, using up to forty 32bit words in bignum arithmetic to
> Camm> print out floats looks prohibitively expensive, although the
> algorithm
> Camm> does appear to work nicely, at least when coded in lisp.
>
> FWIW, cmucl has a lisp implementation of Dybvig's float printer.
> Perhaps that will work for you?
>
It might very well. But is there anything objectionable to a loop over
strtod when printing? Even in corner cases, it appears very fast.
Take care,
> Ray
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