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Re: Extended precision
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Quentin Spencer |
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Re: Extended precision |
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Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:08:29 -0600 |
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Arvid Rosén wrote:
Hi!
I am frequently working with ill-conditioned state-space systems, and
the matrix calculations often lead to problems. Are there any ways to
get increasted or extended precision in Octave? 128-bit doubles or
more would probably help alot in this case.
I'm no expert on the internals of octave, but as I understand it, it's
possible to create new data types, like the integer types that now exist
in octave, and the fixed-point code in octave-forge. However, you would
need to make sure the linear algebra libraries you are using (blas,
lapack, or atlas) can also support extended precision. For what it's
worth, fftw now supports long double types.
-Quentin
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