From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 08:25:58 MDT
On Sunday 19 May 2002 09:20 pm, you wrote:
> >>Mike, it worries me that you, Gina and I are all blonde. spike
> >
> >Gina Miller wrote:
> >Sorry Spike, I'm not natural, I'm all red haired brain cells under this
> > peroxide. (not fire engine, auburn) Gina
>
> Uhoh Gina. You are a redhead, Mike has gone from blonde to, um...
> clear. That leaves only...
>
> Anders! HA!
>
> Anders, once again you have come thru at just the right time.
>
> 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
Python or Ruby have unlimited precision. They may have gotten it from Lisp,
but I find their syntax easier.
OTOH, you said that you were using Excel, so perhaps you need to be looking
for something more like Mathematica. I've heard of a GNU player in that
field, but a year or two ago it was beta (or alpha), and I haven't heard of
it since. (But I haven't been looking, so that's no proof.) One caveat,
the software I'm thinking of required that you be running KDE (or at least
that you had the KDE libraries installed), and that probably means Linux.
There's another choice along this same line that I do know is working, but I
can't remember it's name either. Again, it's a player in the area pioneered
by Mathematica. It is mainly aimed at number theorists, but also does
physics. And it runs on several different platforms. (Linux, Windows, and
Mac, at least.) I think that it's basically text based, but it can certainly
generate fancy graphs of functions. Also that it comes out of France. I've
never used it. It may not be GPL licensed, but it's free (as in "free beer")
(which GPL doesn't guarantee).
If you can program, then I'd pick Python or Ruby. If not, then break out
your search engine, and I hope the clues will help.
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