[squeak-dev] Float storage as Double?

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Mon Apr 26 12:45:22 UTC 2010


Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>
> I still don't get it. Why do you convert the number to a String? The 
> following method is ~20x faster:
>
> a := 
> 124999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999987064068383137630325081727067987961060813568112169 
> / 
> 62500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. 
>
> b := 10e-50.
> a truncateTo: b "===> 
> (199999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)" 
>
>
Thanks very much.


Lawson



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