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Re: E.P E. E.EXACT

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On 7/08/2026 10:50 pm, Krishna Myneni wrote:
> On 8/6/26 20:03, dxf wrote:
>> On 7/08/2026 5:05 am, marcel hendrix wrote:
>>> On 8/6/2026 5:45 PM, Krishna Myneni wrote:
>>>> On 8/6/26 09:00, Anton Ertl wrote:
>>>>> Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> writes:
>>> [..]
>>>> E. is useful for finding the shortest decimal input which will convert to the internal representation for a given decimal floating point input. I wonder if there is a more direct way to arrive at that, rather than the iterative procedure.[..]
>>>
>>> HEX string input and output when the provider and consumer can not communicate in binary, or when the binary formats are not standard IEEE.
>>> As FE. and friends are currently 'ambiguous' when BASE is not DECIMAL, it could be done without adding new words. However, >FLOAT might be a problem.
>>
>> AFAICS E.EXACT E. are for academics only.  E.P just tells me the minimal
>> and ambiguous functions ANS suggested were never going to be enough.  If
>> the user can specify a level of precision then 'exact' was never the goal.
>>
>>
> Your statement suggests that engineers never need to do numerical analysis -- nothing could be further from the truth.

To my knowledge engineers don't operate at the limits of the systems and
tools they use.  They can't afford to.

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E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-05 18:02 +0000
  Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 08:13 -0500
    Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 14:00 +0000
      Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 10:45 -0500
        Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 15:58 +0000
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 17:20 +0000
        Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-06 21:05 +0200
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 20:38 +0000
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 18:44 -0500
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-07 11:03 +1000
            Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-07 10:11 +0000
              Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-08 14:39 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-08 06:32 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 04:50 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 20:01 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 18:06 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 17:24 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 14:01 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-10 22:10 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-11 04:56 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-11 22:16 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-12 05:47 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-08-12 18:03 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-12 11:48 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-08 09:14 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-08 09:40 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-08 15:26 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 16:43 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 13:43 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-09 07:19 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 19:15 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-10 13:17 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 22:59 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 23:54 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-10 20:42 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 17:10 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-12 14:04 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:43 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 15:47 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 18:27 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 16:40 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 19:42 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 18:03 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 22:56 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-23 00:50 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-23 12:25 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 14:52 +0200
            Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-07 07:50 -0500
              Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-08 12:33 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 17:01 +0200
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:15 +0200

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