[Coco] long math subroutine module?

[Willard Goosey]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:31:56PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> So far as I have heard about, no.  I believe the real problem is the size 
> of an int in basic09 is 16 bits & even a real is only 5 bytes including the 
> exponent.

Exactly.  Now I'm really wondering why nobody's written such a thing.
> 
> I believe if you need that in long or double, you'll need to write it in C 
> and use the trig.l to get those functions where the accuracy only gets 
> fuzzy about 16 or 17 digits out.  They work well until the julian calender 
> hits zero in the middle of 4713 BC.

That amuses me, because my reason for asking is that I want to
directly manipulate the real file-pointer returned by the system calls
via SYSCALL... If you're doing trig on a file pointer you're doing
something VERY strange! :-)

Willard
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