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

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

At 8:33 PM 12/6/00, John W Baxter wrote:
>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

A phenomenon with which I'm familiar, indeed :-)

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- Bruce

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