From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 00:14:59 MDT
spike66 wrote:
>>
> GNU: How many of you are using GNU software? I need to find
> some arbitrary precision arithmetic software to chase ever-closer-
> to-perfect odd numbers. Currently I am at the precision limit of
> microsloth excel, which is about 15 decimal digits. Alejandro
> is using bc, which is a GNU product, open source, which I
> find very appealing.
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative? I need about 30 decimal
> digits precision. spike
>
Use Lisp or Scheme. Guile Scheme is built in on most distros.
Python can also handle that using its long (L) type numbers.
- samantha
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