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Rounding: actually it just cuts off. I have not spent much time to think about how to specify and implement the different rounding modes. Maybe some day... Tha
by seg_fault 2y ago
Rounding: actually it just cuts off. I have not spent much time to think about how to specify and implement the different rounding modes. Maybe some day...
Thanks for the hint to the paper. I also faced these issues. Thus, I provided a constructor which accepts mantissa and exponent as values. Very handy for the unittests.
- badmintonbaseba 2y agoBy cutting off do you mean that it correctly rounds towards zero? Maybe you can implement rounding to closest by just doing the calculation in a one digit wider mantissa with rounding to zero and observing the last digit, at least for an even base. It won't be rounding to even though, but for that a 2 digit wider mantissa is probably enough. Rounding to nearest with an odd base doesn't seem to be as straightforwardly implementable from rounding to zero calculations at a higher precision.
- seg_fault 2y agoI remember that I tried that some time ago. Especially the multiplication was tough, but I can not recall where I gave up. When I find some time, I will pick it up again :)