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[REBOL] Re: "scientific notation"

From: carl:cybercraft at: 10-Jan-2003 9:06

On 10-Jan-03, Bohdan or Rosemary Lechnowsky wrote:
> This whole thing with Scientific Notation is related to the math > libraries on your system. AFAIR, Rebol does not have its own > in-built math libraries...it depends on the ones provided by the > system (one of the few things Rebol doesn't have its own in-built > libraries for). I'd agree that Windows is rather lame in using > Scientific Notation after only two decimal places, but that is an > issue with the Windows math libraries, not Rebol.
I'd say it's an issue with REBOL, if REBOL's supposed to be a cross-platform language. I don't want to have consider which OS a script will be running on when I'm writing it, or write work-arounds for known differences. If REBOL for whatever reason can't have its own maths libraries, couldn't it at least convert decimals to a consistant format when we need to process them at the text level?
> At 07:56 AM 1/9/03 +1300, you wrote: >> On 09-Jan-03, Charles wrote: >>> Errrm. >>>>> 1 / 100 >>> == 1E-2 >>> I don't want that. I want decimal. Even to-decimal doesn't give >>> me a decimal. I don't want to deal with E's. How? >> I get... >>>> 1 / 10 >> == 0.1 >>>> 1 / 100 >> == 0.01 >>>> 1 / 1000 >> == 0.001 >>>> 1 / 10000 >> == 0.0001 >>>> 1 / 100000 >> == 1E-5 >> There must be a setting you've changed to get an E at 1 / 10. How >> you change it though I wouldn't know... >> -- >> Carl Read
-- Carl Read