Lars H, 8 Nov 2004: This page was created as an adjunct to Proper integers for Tcl 8.5 or 9.0 to house some code that aimed to implement the ideas there. A more recent and readable (but still incomplete) version of that can be found in [L1 ].
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I wonder - I recently ran into a reference to http://freshmeat.net/projects/hfloat/ which proports to provide support exteme precision floating point as well. I don't recall hearing anyone ask for huge floating point though; only integers. - RS: Arbitrary-size integers are still well-bounded; huge floating-point numbers will need a bound in precision, otherwise any irrational number like atan(-1) (=Pi) will never stop to produce digits...