rational to floating point?

Thant Tessman <thant@acm.org>
13 Oct 2003 00:27:19 -0400

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From: Thant Tessman <thant@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Oct 2003 00:27:19 -0400
Organization: XMission http://www.xmission.com/
Keywords: arithmetic, question
Posted-Date: 13 Oct 2003 00:27:19 EDT

Can anyone recommend a source of information on converting
arbitrary-precision rationals to floating-point numbers? I'm sure I
could make something work, but doing it accurately, efficiently, and
portably seems a little tricky. Google turns up lots of man pages of
languages that support the capability, but a description of *how* they
do it is harder to unearth.


Much thanks for any help,


-thant

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