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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Open Bugs in 3.2
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-01-13 13:41:37
Message-ID: 200401131441.38216.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Tuesday 13 January 2004 02:30, Michael Pyne wrote:
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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.

Indeed GNU MP has not any advanced functions. (That is one of the problems for 
its use in KSpread.)

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

Yes!

>
> Regards,
>  - Michael Pyne
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