Re: [MacPerl] what's the best way to have MacPerl do proper longdivision?

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 9:42 AM -0500 11/7/00, Scott R. Godin wrote:
>in other words, I would like to have more accurate calculations involving
>division, where the percentages don't add up to more than 100%, and where I
>can be reasonably assured of accuracy to around 5-6 decimal places. ?

You should already have that kind of accuracy on a Power PC chip. 
What kind of problems are you having?  (You're aware that floating 
point computations on a computer are only an approximation?)

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>(glad you're back :)
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Paul Schinder
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