Seems to me that Moore and Rather used Moore's FORTH at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory before they started Forth Inc. So you might say that FORTH is a 'natural' for Astronomy!
--hsm On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Dmitry Pavlov <dpav...@ipa.nw.ru> wrote: > Hendrik, > > > Is it conceivable that you need multiple-precision fixed-point? > > If would be OK in terms of numerical accuracy, but > I feel that it would not be good in terms of performance. > > See the description for Neil Toronto's interface to MPFR: > > https://github.com/ntoronto/racket/blob/master/collects/math/scribblings/math-bigfloat.scrbl > > "Bigfloat functions can be hundreds to thousands of times slower than > flonum functions." > > Best regards, > > Dmitry > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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