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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Arbitrary precision in KSpread ?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2005-01-22 19:34:22
Message-ID: 200501222034.23372.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Saturday 22 January 2005 19:04, Tomas Mecir wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:01:29 +0100, Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> 
wrote:
> > You will need to set the precision anyway for decimal numbers. Somebody
> > might need only 20 or so digits, some might want 100, some might need
> > 1000 digits (and would not care too much about computing time).
> >
> > > Then we could use doubles by default, and switch to MP upon request...
> >
> > Yes, I suppose even that it should be selectable document by document (of
> > course GnuMP would only be supported only if KSpread can find the GnuMP
> > runtime library.)
>
> Hmmm, yeah. Of course, this is kinda a long-term thing, for now on, I
> only need to know whether to code stuff flexibly enough. Hence, the
> conclusion is yes.

Yes, sure. I just would like to avoid that one day it becomes a surprise for 
somebody. :-)

>
> > > Mmmm... Complex numbers might be interesting too... Heh, we may end up
> >
> > By the way: if you want to test something in this direction, gcc support
> > complex numbers.
>
> Yup, heard of that, never used it though.

See the info page of gcc about "C Extensions".

>
(...)
>
> / Tomas
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