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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KCalc and KRegexpEditor Need Maintainers
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-12-04 19:37:39
Message-ID: 200712042037.39922.thiago () kde ! org
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Richard Moore wrote:
>On 12/4/07, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote:
>> Allen Winter wrote:
>> >...oh, and I forgot to mention that KCalc builds against GMP.
>> >But GMP has a new license that is incompatible. So GMP will
>> >need to be stripped out. At least that's what I've been told.
>
>I would imagine that removing that dependency and just using standard
>math functions will massively simplify the code and make maintainence
>much easier too. I don't really see why one would need extended
>precision in this sort of application.

It has been nice to have arbitrary precision support, especially for 
rational numbers. The results are always precise, which is not the case 
for normal floating points.

We had bug reports for KCalc about the result being approximate. Telling 
users that any floating point operation involved uncertainty and 
precision loss didn't work very well.

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