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Conference rusure::math

Title:Mathematics at DEC
Moderator:RUSURE::EDP
Created:Mon Feb 03 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2083
Total number of notes:14613

1870.0. " Portable Math Routines" by DEWEYD::SCUDELLARI () Fri May 13 1994 16:50

        Greetings,
    
        I'm currently working on a project that is being developed for
        multiple platforms i.e.: (VMS, OS/2, MS-WINDOWS 3.1 and MVS).
    
        The hardware would be IBM-PC comatible, VAX and IBM's 370,
        AS400 systems. The PROBLEM is the math routines for large
        precision numbers are not consistent across the operating systems
        and hardware.
    
        Questions:
    
        1.) Are there any MATH packages that are portable and compatible
            with "C" available internal/external to DEC ?
    
        2.) This will be sold to a customer so sellable product is
            desirable.
    
        Thanks in advance for the help
    
        Beth
    
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1870.1details please..COMEUP::SIMMONDSOh, Koorie, what a Paradise was yours!Sat May 14 1994 04:0611
.0>        Questions:
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.0>        1.) Are there any MATH packages that are portable and compatible
.0>            with "C" available internal/external to DEC ?
    
    Are you looking for "arbitrary" precision ?  If so there are several
    packages in C you could use, most are free but at least one needs a small
    license.  Also, what do you expect the "package" to contain in addition
    to the basic arithmetic operations ?
    
    John.