offtopic? Math::BigFloat

[Douglas Wilson]

~sdpm~
You mentioned privately that the routines were slow (pure perl never has
been that
good at arbitrary precision number crunching), but I've since noticed that
there are options to Math::BigFloat to use Bit::Vector, Math::Pari, or
Math::GMP as backends (and they are all C or XS libraries), and
I though it might be worth sharing with
the group. It may help, I don't know if it'll help you
enough, but it may be worth looking into. You might have to change
the 'use Math::BigFloat' statement within Math::NumberCruncher, or
maybe it would be enough to pass in your own Math::BigFloat
numbers to the Math::NumberCruncher routines.

Cheers,
Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Abney" <cabney at ucsd.edu>


> ~sdpm~
> That module has a really nice implementation of the log function.
> Sweet.  Way better than what comes by default with Perl.

> > Take a look at Math::NumberCruncher. It has a Ln function/method and
works
> > on Math::BigFloat numbers.


~sdpm~

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