emaro • 4 days ago

In the readme it says it uses double precision for numbers. Also not quite whet I expected from 'arbitrary precision'.

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chriswarbo • 4 days ago

Hmm, yeah. It cites `bc` as prior art, which is quite widely used; but another interesting arbitrary-precision calculator is spigot https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/spigot/spigot.h...

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mananaysiempre • 4 days ago

Also the AOSP calculator, of course[1,2,3].

[1] https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911981

[3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3385412.3386037

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emmelaich • 4 days ago

Ivy does big numbers (not arbitrary) but does rationals too. It's an APL subset.

    0.1 + 0.2
    3/10
https://github.com/robpike/ivy