Subject: [boost] [multiprecision] New binary floating point type
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-20 12:59:16
Folks,
One of the main feature requests during the multiprecision lib review was
for a binary floating point type.
There is now such a type in the sandbox under the
"multiprecision.cpp_bin_float" directory - you will also need latest SVN
Trunk to try this out. This new type is correctly rounded to nearest for
all arithmetic operations plus binary-decimal conversions and sqrt. Minimal
docs so far here:
https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/multiprecision.cpp_bin_float/libs/multiprecision/doc/html/boost_multiprecision/tut/floats/cpp_bin_float.html
I'd welcome comments, and if folks would like to try and break it, that
would be cool too ;-)
Regards, John.