Yes thank you this is why I prefaced this with IMD (in my dreams)
other than with here are all the other great languages that do this
and why can't you put this into J
Donna
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On 29-Jun-06, at 6:26 PM, Miller, Raul D wrote:
Randy MacDonald wrote:
Personally I've never seen significant digit aritmetic (which
is only meaningful for display of numbers) built in to a language.
Where the number of significant digits is some [usually easily
determined] constant, facilities such as 9!:11, etc. are sufficient.
Of course, that's not really significant digit arithmetic.
Where significant digits are not constant, usually it's important
to deal with the issue, and most of the techniques (standard
deviation/variance, interval arithmetic, checking the results
using some form of test, or whatever else) aren't really
significant digit arithmetic.
...which might count as an explanation of what you've seen
(or not seen).
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Raul
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