Re: [sage-support] Fixed Point arithmetic

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Hansen
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be wrote:
 Is there any support in Sage for fixed point arithmetic?  That is,
 computing with real numbers with a fixed number of bits after the
 decimal point?

Fredrik Johansson has done some work in this area -- see
http://code.google.com/p/fastfunlib/.  Note that there isn't really a
usable library there.

--Mike

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Re: [sage-support] Fixed Point arithmetic

2010-08-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:27 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote:
 Did you do this once for something...

Yes, see http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9180

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 On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Jeroen Demeyer jdeme...@cage.ugent.be 
 wrote:
 Is there any support in Sage for fixed point arithmetic?  That is,
 computing with real numbers with a fixed number of bits after the
 decimal point?

 Fredrik Johansson has done some work in this area -- see
 http://code.google.com/p/fastfunlib/.  Note that there isn't really a
 usable library there.

 --Mike

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