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

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 9:05 -0600 12/6/00, <CoDeReBeL@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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

I seem to recall the operations being approximate in grade school, as well.
Rather more approximate than binary floating point, and rather
unpredictably so.

I suppose the "new math" (40 years old now) fixed that.

   ;-)

  --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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