I'm going to do simplification on input data such as finding uselessly verbose ways of drawing a straight line between A and B; for instance, via a point C between the two. Otherwise, strings would of course be quite satisfactory.
And while floating point precision would probably be just fine for the majority of users, better support for the Gmp primitives in Pike wouldn't hurt. AFAIK only Gmp.mpz is exercised regularly and to any greater extent in Pike today, making it less than convenitnt to use the others. Call it more of a reason to make the work more compelling.
/ Johan Sundström (Achtung Liebe!)
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2004-02-07 15:25: Subject: sscanf and Gmp.mpq
4.711 can easily be converted to the fraction 4711/1000.
But I'm also not sure I see the point. If Johan justs want to output the same numbers without any changes, why not just keep them around as strings?
/ Niels Möller (vässar rödpennan)