Eoin Mcloughlin <an*************@phreaker.net> wrote in message
news:40**************@phreaker.net...
I have a perl script for calculating sequences that use numbers like
1/5908979186 however, I need to get more accuracy than the usual 15
decimal places, is this a limitation of 32-bit machines or is it
possible to use more decimal places?
Has something already been written to do this? If not, what would one
have to do enable it?
If you need more precision, then 32 or 64 or .... becomes an issue.
One possible solution is to do the arithmetic in string form which bypasses
the machine limitation. It requires special functions for doing the string
arithmetic but
I have to guess it's been done ... somewhere. (ie once upon a time for a
class we
did at least the easier add, subtract, multiply ....maybe divide)
There is a time cost, of course.
Regards....