On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
The issue is bog-standard floating-point error.
If PHP has a decent
library for exact-precision arithmetic, we could probably use that.
Otherwise, template programmers will have to learn how floating-point
numbers work just like all other programmers in the universe.
http://www.php.net/bc
Okay, so how about we switch to that? We could preserve, say, 30
digits to start with. Of course, it doesn't seem to include a lot of
functions, like trig functions or transcendental functions, but it
would help anyway.