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Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi.

From raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos)
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi.
Date 2015-10-02 11:06 +0000
Organization Go wash your mouth.
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supercat@casperkitty.com wrote:

> On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 6:23:35 PM UTC-5, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> > There have been some suggestions that e is an optimal radix, but
> > it isn't at all convenient for hardware. pi would be interesting in
> > that many useful multiples of pi would have exact representations.
> 
> What would be the "exact" representation of 4pi?

I think 4pi, being larger than one circle, is officially declared to be
Not Useful. (The uses of base-pi are arcane, obscure, and AFAIAA not
greatly important. But they exist.)

> Using non-integer radix will make it hard to produce correctly-rounded
> results for even simple expressions like (x+x);

On the contrary. pi+pi will be exactly 20. No rounding needed. The
problems in this regard are the same as with integer bases.

Of course, the _real_ problem is that most numbers we use _aren't_
multiples or rational fractions of pi, and base-pi is as difficult for
them as base-16 is for pi.

Richard

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How to write this sign function in Delphi. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-21 20:17 +0200
  Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-21 20:43 +0200
  Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-09-21 19:51 +0100
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  Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-09-21 20:58 +0200
    Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. M Philbrook <jamie_ka1lpa@charter.net> - 2015-09-21 18:15 -0400
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            Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-09-22 10:32 -0700
            Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2015-09-22 18:17 +0000
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                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-28 05:20 +0000
                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-09-27 23:23 -0700
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                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-28 11:35 +0100
                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-09-28 10:33 -0700
                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-28 18:59 +0100
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                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-09-28 12:16 -0700
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                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-02 10:53 +0000
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                Re: How to write this sign function in Delphi. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-30 21:28 +0000
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