From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
"Jairo A. del Rio" <jairoadelrio6@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: About xdecimal
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:39:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20f79089-3515-8dba-57f0-9d54124622a5@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKyqqaa3VS1GWEfD=v45jFRSOcNrcRnbHR1VND9XCYoBKHF64A@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/28/2020 2:33 PM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> Hi, list.
>
> I've tried using the xdecimal library included with LuaMetaTeX and I
> have some remarks:
>
> 1. Shifts are decimal, not binary: 145 >> 1 gives 14.
this is how decnumber defines shift: digits
> 2. Integer division (//) is not implemented. Is that by design?
i'll add that one
> 3. Following 2, what would be the way to handle integer division,
> remainder... for large numbers?
i'll add a % b
> Thank you in advance.
better first do the testing
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-28 13:33 Jairo A. del Rio
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2020-12-28 15:46 ` Jairo A. del Rio
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