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From: Bill Maier <shufflesky@hotmail.com>
To: "gsl-discuss@sourceware.org" <gsl-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Multiprecision arithmetic
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLUPR16MB0196C8B54FECCB5A91C42236C9060@BLUPR16MB0196.namprd16.prod.outlook.com> (raw)

I notice than in the write-up for bug #45746 it is suggested that multiprecision
arithmetic be used in a portion of the calculation to produce a more precise
result. Is this something that would be considered in GSL? I did a search
through the code for mpfr or gmp and did not find either. In fact I couldn't find
any code where multiprecision arithmetic is currently being used. Is it GSL
policy to keep all internal calculations in double precision?

-Bill Maier

             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24 14:18 Bill Maier [this message]
2015-11-24 16:00 ` Patrick Alken

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