On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > Aryeh Gregor wrote: >> The issue is bog-standard floating-point error. If PHP has a decent >> library for exact-precision arithmetic, we could probably use that. >> Otherwise, template programmers will have to learn how floating-point >> numbers work just like all other programmers in the universe. > > http://www.php.net/bc
Okay, so how about we switch to that? We could preserve, say, 30 digits to start with. Of course, it doesn't seem to include a lot of functions, like trig functions or transcendental functions, but it would help anyway. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
