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Move to a decimal floating point library #282

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louisrubet opened this issue Jan 19, 2024 · 0 comments
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Move to a decimal floating point library #282

louisrubet opened this issue Jan 19, 2024 · 0 comments
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louisrubet commented Jan 19, 2024

This will help

Requirements are: arbitrary precision, conversion to string (several modes possible is a must), transcendent math functions (trig, logs).

Here is a selection of some libs:

lib license arb. precision ->string transcendent
Intel DFP (c) 2018, Intel no yes yes
libdfp GPL 2 no yes partial (no trig)
libBF MIT yes yes yes
mpdecimal simplified BSD yes yes partial (no trig)
IBM decnumber ICU no yes no
libdfloat Michael Warren Free Software License no yes no
MathCW closed no ? ?

Please see

Choice goes to libBF from Vincent Bellard.

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