PDL has the same precision at Matlab -- they both use double-precision IEEE floating point (on all the usual platforms).
On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > I don't recall I ever had to deal with numbers in perl that were too > big or too smal > for perl but I guess with real engineering stuff people will need very > good precision > and very big numbers. > > In the Matlab tutorial I see it has 16 significant decimal digits in > floating point and > a range of 10**-308 and 10**308. > > What can we say about Perl or PDL in this regard? > How can we deal with cases when really good precision > is required? > > Gabor > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
