[Newbies] Floating point arithmetic

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Karpinski
Would rounding help? The problem is pretty well explained in that mailing, but surely, when we are doing arithmetic to two or three decimal places, there will be some way to ask that the result be rounded to that many places. As long as the numbers remain close to 1, it may be easier to

[Newbies] Squeak Foundation Election 2008 coming up!

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Karpinski
Maybe everybody knows, but could you summarize the duties and the activities of board members so that people could tell easily whether this would be an honor they would like to carry for a year? For example, does board membership require or encourage international travel or other