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Re: [gnugo-devel] Floating point arithmetics
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Gunnar Farnebäck |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] Floating point arithmetics |
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:49:06 +0200 |
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Arend wrote:
> I think for 3.6, we should rather accept the platform dependency. While
> the patch is probably obvious, it is still big, and I feel a little
> unsafe about adding it so shortly before 3.6. (But that is just my
> opinion.)
I'm inclined to agree. But for mainline we want a solution.
> Personally, I prefer the fixed point arithmetics as you wrote them (over
> adding tons of "+0.0001" etc.). I did s.th. similar for the SPEC branch
> at that time; I remember some reservations from Gunnar about putting it
> to mainline.
I'm pretty sure I did the conversion for the SPEC branch; at least I
added it to CVS. In any case my reservation was that I didn't like
dealing with distances in the thousands.
/Gunnar