Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:56:17 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the value of Pi Message-ID: <19990730085617.B228@whizkidtech.net> In-Reply-To: <xzp7lni32ur.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:26:36AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291008390.13541-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <199907291156.NAA06494@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <19990730093259.A93194@freebie.lemis.com> <199907300302.XAA15392@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <xzp7lni32ur.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Even if you manage to get them all to agree on one specific value > (say, 3.14159265359), what are you going to do if you decide to port > your application to a different system which has higher floating-point > precision and want to use a more precise value of pi? Search-replace > throughout the entire source tree? Is this a trick question? You should just change one occurence in an include file and run make. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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