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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 14 00:01:01 EDT 2009

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?)

Robby

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Eli Barzilay<eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Aug 13, Doug Williams wrote:
>> That is the default. But, we want to user to be able to control the
>> representation for numerical analysis reasons, too. So, we're
>> allowing both.
>
> But if you don't use external libraries, then you're better off just
> checking the inputs, but use Scheme values directly.
>
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