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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:26:03 +0100
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> before you make the calculation i think you'd have a pretty
> good idea of how 'big' the result will be.

not good enough.
the scale of sub-expressions is important too.

> or, if you want to
> write more code, write a thing to scale the output, based
> on a huge input scale.

there's already something that does this, to a good approximation.
it's called the FPU.

> rather than building yet
> another one that leaves itself open to be choc-full-o-bugs.

i wrote it nearly 15 years ago.

it's almost trivially simple. (ok, it gained a couple of excrescences
early on, but i knocked 'em off for the inferno version).

i just pointed it out because it's one of the very few
tools i've written that i've found consistently useful
and usable. if you don't like the way it works, ignore it.
i really don't see the problem.