This is slightly off-topic since the original poster was asking about fixed-point arithmetic, and not really significant digits, but....

It would be cool to have a perl library that would automatically apply the scientific "number of significant digits" rules. 

my $n1=new Number::Scientific(5500,3); #5500 w/ 3 significatn digits
my $n2=new Number::Scientific(3.141592,7) # pi w/ 7 siginificant digit
+s
my $n3=$n1*$n2;
my $n4=$n2/$n1;
my $n5=$n1+$n2;
print "$n3 $n4 $n5\n";

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would output 17300 0.000571 5500. Unfortunately I don't think any such beast exists.

In reply to Re: significant digits in computations by lhoward
in thread significant digits in computations by daemonchild

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