9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
10:29 p.m.
Jonathan Cast reacts to Don Stewart statement about PI:
It's in the Floating class.
Yes. But it doesn't have a default implementation. That strikes me as odd, considering the mathematical and actual correctness of
class Floating sigma where pi = acos (-1) ...
So, you assume that acos should have a *default* implementation in the Floating class? Propose it, please. Note, BTW that from the viewpoint of "actual" correctness, it would be better to have PI as exact as possible, while acos, well, it is a trans- cendental function, whose representations are usually approximate... Jerzy Karczmarczuk