[plt-scheme] More PLT Scheme as an Alternative to Matlab

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Aug 14 00:06:00 EDT 2009

On Aug 13, Robby Findler wrote:
> I think Doug is saying that the user might want, say, 128 bits of
> precision in their floating point numbers and asking what to do if
> mzscheme's floats don't support that. (Or do mz's floats support all
> those different sizes?)

If the intention is to do the operations in Scheme, then you can't go
with anything that mzscheme doesn't support.  (For exmaple, you can't
do 128-bit floating point arithmetics.)

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