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Re: REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3

by Olaf Wagner <wagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jan 14, 2004 at 08:22 AM

Henning Thielemann <iakd0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, E.A. Ratzer wrote:

>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> > I noticed that constants like Pi are defined in Math.i3 with high
>> > precision but as REAL literals, whereas the rest of the module works
with
>> > LONGREAL. I would call this a flaw - someone already encountered
that?
>> 
>> I would agree - I copied the definitions and defined them as LongReals
>> myself.

> Now I have copied them to the arithmetic library, too:
> 
http://www.elegosoft.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-libs/arithmetic/src/basictypes/float/FloatTrans.ig?rev=1.21&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

> Unfortunately this makes the libm3 a step useless further. :-(
Why not just fix them in libm3? If it doesn't break any programs,
I don't see any objection to it.

Olaf
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 6 Posts in Topic:
REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3
Henning Thielemann <ia  2004-01-12 18:04:37 
Re: REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3
"E.A. Ratzer" &  2004-01-13 09:28:06 
Re: REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3
Henning Thielemann <ia  2004-01-13 14:13:45 
Re: REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3
Olaf Wagner <wagner@[E  2004-01-14 08:22:45 
Re: REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3
Henning Thielemann <ia  2004-01-14 17:04:18 
Re: REAL constants in libm3/src/arith/POSIX/Math.i3
Olaf Wagner <wagner@[E  2004-01-14 21:15:12 

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