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In article <1990Dec12.175323.8958@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <13615@chaph.usc.edu> jeenglis@alcor.usc.edu (Joe English Muffin) writes:
>>  The numerical facilities in Common
>>Lisp are second only to those in APL among the most
>>common languages (well, those that I know of
>>anyway), including Fortran.
>
>I'd hazard to say that they're even better than APL.  Does APL have
>arbitrary precision rational numbers, complex numbers (I think they're an
>experimental feature in some APLs), and multiple floating point formats?


APR numbers - no, you would have to write your own functions.
complex numbers - yes, it should be in the upcoming extended APL
standard. All modern APL dialects (APL II, SAX, J etc) have them.
What do you mean with multiple floating point formats? IEEE and such?

I have never seen that in an APL dialect, but I have never come across
the situation where I could use different formats.

>
>Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
>
>barmar@think.com
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Cheers.../Michael
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