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Re: High level programming in C

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jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes:
> Le 11/12/2017 à 05:03, David Kleinecke a écrit :
>> One way to get involved with large integers is to try to
>> build an API for rational numbers.
>
> All floating point numbers are rational numbers

True (ignoring infinities and NaNs), but not all rational numbers are
floating point numbers.  The floating point numbers are a subset of the
rational numbers, and that subset excludes a lot of useful values.

A library that supports rational numbers will be able to represent 1/3
exactly.  (And it's been pointed out that such libraries do exist.)

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  Re: High level programming in C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-20 12:52 +0100
    Re: High level programming in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-20 06:07 -0600
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                Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 09:13 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-21 11:29 -0800
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                Re: High level programming in C "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-11-21 18:58 -0500
                Re: High level programming in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-11-22 01:19 +0100
                Re: High level programming in C Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-22 01:47 +0000
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                Re: High level programming in C Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-22 07:36 +0000
                Re: High level programming in C "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-11-22 12:45 -0500
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                Re: High level programming in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-22 14:25 -0800
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                Re: High level programming in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-22 16:08 -0800
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                Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 16:20 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-22 10:39 +0100
                Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-23 02:59 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-23 12:24 +0100
                Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-23 04:49 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-11-22 15:42 +0000
                Re: High level programming in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-22 08:57 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-21 09:19 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 09:28 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-11-21 09:22 -0800
            Re: High level programming in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-11-21 16:29 +0000
              Re: High level programming in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-11-21 17:43 +0100
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            Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 08:52 -0800
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                Re: High level programming in C Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 09:34 -0800
        Re: High level programming in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-21 11:37 -0600
          Re: High level programming in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-11-21 20:28 +0100
            Re: High level programming in C Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 19:45 +0000
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              Re: High level programming in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-11-21 20:55 +0100
                Re: High level programming in C Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-21 20:07 +0000
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                Re: High level programming in C scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-11-22 15:38 +0000
                Re: High level programming in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-21 15:17 -0600
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                Re: High level programming in C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-11-21 15:41 -0600
                Re: High level programming in C gordonb.fqrzr@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-12-10 21:24 -0600
                Re: High level programming in C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-12-10 20:03 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-12-11 17:49 +0000
                Re: High level programming in C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-12-11 10:32 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-12-12 01:33 +0000
                Re: High level programming in C David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-12-11 18:34 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2017-12-11 20:09 +0100
                Re: High level programming in C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-12-11 11:23 -0800
                Re: High level programming in C David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-11-22 11:01 +0100
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