Mark Dickinson gmail.com> writes:
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jesus Cea jcea.es> wrote:
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> > But IEEE 754 was created by pretty clever guys and sure they had a
> > reason for define things in the way they are. Probably we are missing
> > something.
>
> Well, if we are, then nobody
Pierre B. hotmail.com> writes:
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> 4. Since the repeating pattern is present at least twice at the end,
> one can augment the precision of the conversion by detecting the
> repetition and adding more. This detection is trivial.
Wrong of me. This point is acutally inval
Sorry to intervene out of the blue, but I find the suggested rule for
fractional to decimal conversion not as clean as I'd expect.
If fractions are converted to decimals when doing arithmetics, would it be
worthwhile to at least provide a minimum of fractional conversion integrity?
What I have i
