Precision and CD's

[Taneli Huuskonen]

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Bruce Miller wrote:

[...]
> defn, several applications will be perfectly justified in exporting 
> bigfloats w/ radix=16, and I probably wont have any control over it.
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
IMHO, you should have.
> 
> So, I can expect my Live Math documents to look like this:
> 
>   "The first zero of the Airy function, a_1, is at
>                                -9
>          a_1 = -160673517802x16
>     ..."
> 
> Am I the only one that has a problem with this?

I, for one, would be rather dismayed.  However, I feel very strongly
that the solution should lie in allowing OpenMath compliant applications
to negotiate a preferred number base, rather than insisting that
everyone must use base 10 unless they happen to agree on a non-core CD.
That, however, is a matter of a protocol external to OpenMath.

Taneli Huuskonen

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