dly wrote: > 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
What great languages do this? While Maple and Mathematica do symbolic calculations: they are subject to the same problems concerning loss of signficance when it comes to evaluation. Plus you pay a huge performance penalty. The fact is that you can obtain accurate answers without significant digit arithmetic, as I have pointed out many times. However, you need something different from a naive algorithm. Bst wishes, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
