Re: Re: c code generation
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg4449] Re: [mg4362] Re: c code generation
- From: vschaer at uia.ua.ac.be (Dennis.Verschaeren)
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 04:40:52 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
It must be said that you can not use a floating-point implementation in C to verify Mathematica's exact arithmetic, unless you implement a library in C, which enables you to overload all operations in rational arithmetic (I do not mention symbolic computations). You can try to use floating-point numbers in Mathematica to verify an algorithm in C, but then again, I must admit that is very unclear and at least not transparant to the user, when Mathematica sends its floating-point numbers directly to the hardware (like single or double floating-point numbers in C), or handles them in software. ----------------------------Dennis Verschaeren-------------------------- University of Antwerp (Campus UIA) desk 32 3 820 24 03 InfoProc Numeric Interest Group secr 32 3 820 24 01 Dept. of Math. & Comp. Science telecopier 32 3 820 24 21 Universiteitsplein 1 e-mail: B-2610 Wilrijk - Antwerp (Belgium) Dennis.Verschaeren at uia.ua.ac.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====