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The newt programming language
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Investigate replacing integers and doubles with BigInts and Rationals #32

Open cqcallaw opened 8 years ago

cqcallaw commented 8 years ago

newt is not intended to be a systems language, neither is high performance a primary goal. Avoiding overflow and rounding issues may be well worth the decreased performance in this context

cqcallaw commented 8 years ago

A potentially useful resource: http://ericlippert.com/2015/11/30/the-dedoublifier-part-one/, particularly part 2

cqcallaw commented 8 years ago

Another potentially useful resource: https://gmplib.org/