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by mrd
Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:00 pm
Forum: newLISP newS
Topic: newLISP now on Graham's list
Replies: 55
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People who do bignum application perhaps shouldn't use a scripting language like newLISP. Those bignum applications would probably involve heavy number-crunching which is more suited to do in a compiled language. The best CL for bignums is actually CLISP, surprisingly. It is a byte-code interpreter...
by mrd
Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:53 pm
Forum: newLISP newS
Topic: newLISP now on Graham's list
Replies: 55
Views: 49448

He could have just defined it using floating point arithmetik: Lutz, please be a little more sensible. Do not abuse floating point arithmetic like this, it is causing us all to laugh at you. Floating point arithmetic is for INEXACT CALCULATIONS ONLY . Using floating point representation as a stand-...