From: "D. Vrabel" <dv207 AT hermes DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Longer than double?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:25:37 +0100
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Guruman wrote:
>     I am doing some programming that heavily utilizes floating-point math,
> using DJGPP. This code would benefit from having variables longer than the
> precision that 'double' offers. (some juicy chaos theory stuff). The problem
> is, I've reached the precision limit of my variables, and my plots look like
> enormous Atari 2600 pixels, even at 1024 x 768.
>
>     Are there any add-on packages (or hacks) for DJGPP that provide
> extra-large precision functionality? I have seen products of this nature for
> other compilers, but wouldn't know where to begin modifying them to support
> DJGPP.
You can use long double which uses 10 bytes and not 8.  Or there are
also arbitrary precision maths libraries. One I have heard about was used
in the Fractint fractal program (try looking at
http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html)

David.