Re: Lisp vs APL for numeric work (was Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work)

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From: Tom Neff
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 07:08

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In article <634@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes:
>In <1990Dec20.050320.23027@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>>It's been a long time since I've used APL, but I don't recall it having a
>>way to specify single- vs. double-precision.
>
>     That's because it's a high-level language!  In APL, "numeric" means "in
>the minimum available precision sufficient to represent the value in question.

Terrific, Dave!

Tell me, what's the minimum precision necessary to represent (1/3) in
binary floating point?

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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: Lisp vs APL for numeric work (was Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work)
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Date: 28 Dec 90 07:08:02 GMT
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