From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pierpaolo Bernardi Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: RFC: Arbitrary-precision floats for Guile Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:42:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296667261 28368 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2011 17:21:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 02 18:20:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkgNz-00048p-Th for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:20:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PkgNy-0007Qs-Tn for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:20:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55251 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pkerf-0002i3-HD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:43:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkera-0005jW-54 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:46686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pkera-0005jS-2R for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:43:22 -0500 Original-Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so99717qwa.0 for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:43:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xnQ1Q4WUIXAWIDyoUMCUwU2xr27HOEiImyohJxlO2Pw=; b=X+F/8ctHMCcCPB+IoIWyVAw7bdnudHgBRfGFUeYpk+YWX5B+l94CVt8lrFdodY09YS TTMi2o6h5TECErtNlN6tdLyf/tsHPoTOcdOoAFCrzHbZWcDgzzcUgXqrvoEpuU0sWvhP 4UPmbrZCzv82HWPULh/az0qKLq3EzsXMkF07w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZzflGQwv8BzlKzAu3CQueBvZaT6/JvBcfXuFtDxtkol4ksx7VO4iXHj/gbOSOkmmZP o1Ef3bMLtikw6+YPFQ2E7RIbf44/ehVRykmHuGp310+aTq93L+9xKrB1sA/c5qY4s1yX y1pCpSGo1kU1x7VSqjta1Dp9gIvEmz2xJ03I8= Original-Received: by 10.229.98.193 with SMTP id r1mr8460409qcn.22.1296661345127; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:42:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.229.190.131 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:42:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11512 Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 02:53, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrot= e: > Another recent book addresses arithmetic and the computation of > elementary functions in software arbitrary-precision arithmetic: > > @String{pub-CAMBRIDGE =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =3D "Cambridge U= niversity Press"} > @String{pub-CAMBRIDGE:adr =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =3D "Cambridge, UK"} > > @Book{Brent:2011:MCA, > =C2=A0author =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "Richard P. Brent and Paul Zimmerma= nn", > =C2=A0title =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"Modern computer arithmetic", > =C2=A0volume =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "18", > =C2=A0publisher =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0pub-CAMBRIDGE, > =C2=A0address =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0pub-CAMBRIDGE:adr, > =C2=A0pages =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"xvi + 221", > =C2=A0year =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "2011", > =C2=A0ISBN =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "0-521-19469-5 (hardcover)", > =C2=A0ISBN-13 =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"978-0-521-19469-3 (hardcover)", > =C2=A0LCCN =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "QA76.9.C62 BRE 2011", > =C2=A0bibdate =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"Sat Jan 15 12:25:22 MST 2011", > =C2=A0bibsource =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0"library.ox.ac.uk:210/ADVANCE", > =C2=A0series =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 "Cambridge monographs on applied an= d computational > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 mathematics", > =C2=A0acknowledgement =3D ack-nhfb, > =C2=A0subject =3D =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"Computer arithmetic", > } In case this is not universally known: this book is also available for free from Zimmermann home page. http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/mca/pub226.html Cheers P.