[clean-list] Re: 1.Floating Point Support (clean-list digest)
Siegfried Gonzi
siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at
Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:21:17 +0100
clean-list-admin@cs.kun.nl wrote:
> 1. Floating Point Support (RT Happe)
>
> Most hardware conforms, more or less well, to the IEEE 754 floating
> point standard; most programming languages don't support standard features
> (precisions, rounding modes, exceptions) adequately; Clean doesn't
> either.
I do not know what you really mean, but rounding errors are inavoidable (in
everey language); that is my naive assumption.
How can a programming language active control the rounding errors? A number is
rounded up or down.
But hasn't Clean incorporated the BigNumerical-Library for that issues?
Regards,
S. Gonzi