From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31566 invoked by alias); 8 May 2003 21:07:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31548 invoked from network); 8 May 2003 21:07:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.ukfsn.org) (217.158.120.143) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 May 2003 21:07:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (pc-62-30-73-154-az.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.73.154]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1E31E6A44; Thu, 8 May 2003 22:07:46 +0100 (BST) Received: by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Dsce-0002Ru-00; Thu, 08 May 2003 22:08:12 +0100 From: Brian Gough MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16058.51004.370331.566110@debian.local> Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 21:07:00 -0000 To: Afonso Arantes Cc: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Decimal Floating Point In-Reply-To: <20030501212617.28223.qmail@web41701.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030501212617.28223.qmail@web41701.mail.yahoo.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-q2/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 Afonso Arantes writes: > I have a question regarding additions to the library. > How difficult would it be to get GSL to use decimal > floating point instead of the regular IEEE754? I'm not aware of any computers that use decimal floating point.. so I'm not sure what that would mean.