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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Open Bugs in 3.2
From:       Michael Pyne <pynm0001 () comcast ! net>
Date:       2004-01-13 1:30:21
Message-ID: 200401122030.37002.pynm0001 () comcast ! net
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On Monday 12 January 2004 17:55, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote:
> All in all, here's my final and honest opinion (in the hope to settle
> things a bit): there should be some library to hold arbitrary numbers, like
> BigDecimal and BigInteger from Java. This way, KCalc would be somewhat
> slower, but not that much slower, wouldn't it?

Well, unless you were trying to calculate pi to a few thousand digits by doing 
4 * arctan (1), the normal user would probably never notice a difference, 
especially on newer hardware, since KCalc performs one calculation at a time.

And anyways, such a library already exists (GNU MP), although for something 
which is supposed to be just a simple calculator (kcalc), it would probably 
be overkill.  Not to mention I don't know how many math operations GNU MP 
supports (e.g., inverse, sinh, etc.), and it would take time to correctly 
implement those left out by GNU MP.

It was a minor bug, it's fixed now, and I think we should all just relax about 
it. :-)

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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