From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-06-25T16:10:55+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FixedPt-0.0.1

Phil Tomson wrote:

> What's a fixed point number?
> -------------------------------------
> First off  a fixed point number is represented by a limited number of 
> bits.
> You can  define that limit when you construct a FixedPt:
>   fp = FixedPt.new(9.25,6,2)

It's an interesting library and who knows -- I'd not be entirely too 
surprised if there were use cases out of hardware design for this.

Anyway, I'm writing this because I am wondering if you also allow a 
String style constructor like FixedPt.new("9.25", 6, 2)? Otherwise you 
could get a bit of trouble when working with FixedPt numbers with lots 
of post-decimal digits because the float literal implies a certain 
inaccurateness.