Comment on Chebyshev approximation and how it can help (2012)parentComments−kragen2yhave you tested this? how fast and accurate were the results? or are you simply assuming that all compilers are perfect?my experience outside of ada is that decimal arithmetic is never fast on binary computers−abecedarius2yaaui that Ada line would declare a fixed-point type, so decimal/binary shouldn't really come up except for overflow handling, here. (Haven't tried it though.)
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have you tested this? how fast and accurate were the results? or are you simply assuming that all compilers are perfect?
my experience outside of ada is that decimal arithmetic is never fast on binary computers
aaui that Ada line would declare a fixed-point type, so decimal/binary shouldn't really come up except for overflow handling, here. (Haven't tried it though.)