Re: determinant of integer values

[Miquel Cabanas]

hi,

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 01:15 -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Does anyone have a good way to efficiently and accurately convert from
> c*2^d to a*10^b?

there's a link at the IBM's General Decimal Arithmetic
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/ (search for "Conversions", right
column, close to the end) pointing to a paper by David M. Gay, Correctly
Rounded Binary-Decimal and Decimal-Binary Conversions. There's also a
link to the C-source code file implementing the conversion algorithm
(Netlib site, dtoa.c file).

Hope this helps,

Miquel


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