in reply to Re^9: Anyone with XS experience willing to create a high performance data type for Perl?
in thread Anyone with XS experience willing to create a high performance data type for Perl?
That's a bit of a problem, assuming you're talking about scientific notation.
99 is 9.9e1, 100 is 1e2, yet they're the same order of magnitude.
Taking the log10 of the number is better.
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