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Mathics uses 64bit of machine precision #448

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sn6uv opened this issue Jul 11, 2016 · 0 comments · Fixed by #463
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Mathics uses 64bit of machine precision #448

sn6uv opened this issue Jul 11, 2016 · 0 comments · Fixed by #463
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sn6uv commented Jul 11, 2016

The Mathics precision system needs some reworking. We're currently using 64 bits of precision (plus some bits for the exponent etc.) but we should be using 53 (on 64-bit systems).

We could even consider using python floats for machine precision numbers (should give some performance gains for numerical stuff e.g. plotting).

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