On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 04:16:32PM +0200, Alexander Burger wrote: > Ah, yes, that's correct. This is because even a double has only 56 bits of > precision, so the 60 bits of a short number should be enough.
BTW, pil64 did the same. You *could* build also bignums of course, but where to stop? It might result in very long chains of bignum cells if the floating point number has a big exponent. So I think this decision was also an efficiency consideration. ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
