[Sarnold] 07/01/2005

New release but still named ''BigFloat for Tcl v1.1 alpha 1''.

See the ChangeLog at [http://sarnold.free.fr/CHANGELOG.txt]

New english page at [http://sarnold.free.fr/index.en.html]

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[Sarnold] 04/01/2005

BigFloat for Tcl ''v1.1a1'' is released at [http://sarnold.free.fr].
The test suite and the doctools man page are written.
Just one problem : the test suite runs in 2 min.
It would be too long for including it in tcllib, wouldn't it be ?

[AM] (4 january 2005) Testsuites are meant to check the code, they are used every once in a while. I do not think 2 minutes is too long, though of course that depends on the number of tests too :)

[LV] Shoot - if it ran for an hour, that would be fine with me - though I think I'd like it to let me know that was coming.  What I would want, however, was assurance that in the end, the package is working really well...

[Sarnold] It takes approx. 120 seconds, but it does 592 unit tests. The way it works : it compares the result with [expr]' same function, so the comparison is limited to 12 decimals.

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[Sarnold] 14/12/2004

''BigFloat for Tcl v1.0'' is released at [http://sarnold.free.fr].

This is a library that handles floating-point numbers with (possibly) hundreds of digits, with full support of trigonometry, log, exp, pi, etc.

This is a rewriting of [MPA].
All functions are shipped in the ''::math::bigfloat'' namespace.
There is a test suite, and a demonstration that takes the form of a RPN calculator, in both 
starkit and starpack forms.

I think the next thing is to produce a decent manual in doctools format, and then a test suite that fits into tcllib. ''done 19/12/2004''

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'''Past discussion :'''


[LV] Is the intent for this to be a tcl script only package; something
that might be contributed to tcllib?

[Sarnold] Sure, I first asked if MPA could be contributed to tcllib, and after I realized there was an interest for it, I decided that MPA would become BigFloat for Tcl.

I am currently rewriting all MPA into one namespace called ''::math::bigfloat'' and the name of the package should be ''bigfloat''.  There is a lot of work, but I think I will have done it for February 2005. Wait and see. ''Done, but the package has to be brought to
tcllib''

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