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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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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-28 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 13:33 Jairo A. del Rio
2020-12-28 15:39 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-12-28 15:46   ` Jairo A. del Rio
2020-12-28 16:11     ` Hans Hagen

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