Re: pPOK. I was thinking about things like this, though that's probably a bug in the module. In any case, bad design and bugs compound to make one hellish landscape. It's the difference between "things just work" and "things just don't work".

Re: one grain of sand. I think I made it clear in the update that one-to-one mapping i.e. identity is important, even if the magnitude isn't. I don't hear you refuting that.

Basically, there are two desirable properties to have:

  1. exact calculations, free of accumulating errors ("grains of sand"). Perl NV aka double cannot guarantee that, period. Feed complainers => -Mbigrat.
  2. round-tripping conversions. That can be guaranteed! And should. "0.1" -> 0.1 -> "0.1" is about shortest roundtrip, no truncation is necessary.

Finally, Re: cut and paste computing. Absolutely! Take a printed paper and run those numbers. Repeatability is the cornerstone. If you say you run statistics on IEEE doubles, but your data does not compute, someone will be upset.

In reply to Re^7: Variables are automatically rounded off in perl (scientists) by oiskuu
in thread Variables are automatically rounded off in perl by Anonymous Monk

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