From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 30 6:57:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r21.bfm.org [208.18.213.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A9814C08 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 06:57:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id IAA00251; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:57:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:56:17 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the value of Pi Message-ID: <19990730085617.B228@whizkidtech.net> References: <199907291156.NAA06494@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <19990730093259.A93194@freebie.lemis.com> <199907300302.XAA15392@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:26:36AM +0200 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 11:26:36AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Even if you manage to get them all to agree on one specific value > (say, 3.14159265359), what are you going to do if you decide to port > your application to a different system which has higher floating-point > precision and want to use a more precise value of pi? Search-replace > throughout the entire source tree? Is this a trick question? You should just change one occurence in an include file and run make. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message