Re: Floating point problem?

[Jonathan Bachrach <jrb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

it's not a floating point problem, it's a reader problem caused by 
insufficient integer precision in str-to-num.  perhaps it's time to add 
bignum support.  i'll get right on that.  it turns out that james 
knight has already written a gmp based bignum module for goo.

jonathan

On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 06:05 PM, Chris Double wrote:

> In goo 0_154, entering the following floating point number returns a
> different number:
>
> goo/user 0<= 3.1415926535
> goo/user 0=> 0.8248414
>
> It seems to depend on the length of the number entered.
>
> Chris.
> -- 
>   Chris Double
>   chris.double@double.co.nz
>
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