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

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

At 17:19 -0800 12/6/00, Bruce Van Allen wrote:
>At 3:32 PM 12/6/00, John W Baxter wrote:
>>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.
>>
>Gee, what I learned in the days of the 'old math' was as precise as one chose:

I was referring to the random introduction of non-optimally-accurate
computational steps.

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

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