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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: E.P E. E.EXACT |
| Date | 2026-08-06 15:58 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2026Aug6.175846@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | <2026Aug5.200203@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <115219i$3rqt4$1@dont-email.me> <2026Aug6.160054@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <1152a6j$3uh9r$1@dont-email.me> |
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.
There sure is, and that's what the papers are about, and the best
approach is probably at least 50 times faster than my current
E. implementation. But these approaches are more complicated to
implement, so for now, I'll stick with the slow one.
- anton
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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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