Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:14:20 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0DGEIQA012762 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:14:19 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0DGAC4i011839 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:10:13 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0DBWXmD005886; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:09:59 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 181336 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:09:59 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0DG9xmP022741 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:09:59 +0100 Received: from mailgate5.uea.ac.uk (mailgate5.uea.ac.uk [139.222.130.185]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0DG9hdU011055 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:09:47 +0100 Received: from [139.222.131.131] (helo=ueams02.uea.ac.uk) by mailgate5.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMlpn-0002to-He for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:09:43 +0000 Received: from [139.222.114.191] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LMlpn-0008J0-ET for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:09:43 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <496CBCC7.1060309@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:09:43 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Floating point calculations To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jan 2009 16:14:20.0688 (UTC) FILETIME=[FDE55100:01C97599] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5586 Hello all, I've been working on a few floating point problems, and it occurred to me that it might be sensible for LaTeX3 to provide a programmers set of FP tools. This would avoid the need for everyone to code their own bits and pieces, and would be an obvious candidate to use Lua if available. Is this a possibility for the kernel/tools side of things? -- Joseph Wright