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

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Aside from floating point computations on a computer being approximate, it's
possible to write a Perl program that will take two numbers and put them
through the division algorithm you learned in grade school without using the
"/" operator. I'm not going to sit here and do it myself, but it would give
you results that lack the particular flaws that sometimes occur from just
using x / y.

on 11/7/00 9:32 AM, Paul Schinder at schinder@pobox.com wrote:

> 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?)
> 
>> 
>> (glad you're back :)
>> 
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