[ruby-talk:00219] Re: name for float of C wanted!

From: Shigetoh Kumagai <shigetoh@...>
Date: 1999-01-26 11:07:20 UTC
List: ruby-talk #219
From: gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp (GOTO Kentaro)
Subject: [ruby-talk:00218] name for float of C wanted!
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:44:53 +0900 (JST)
Message-ID: <199901260844.RAA14524@hanare00.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp>

G'day, gotoken,

How about ShortFloat or SingleFloat? That's straight forward and simple.

I think SingleFloat show really what it means. If you have Duoble Precision, you can call it DoulbleFloat. What do you think?

1)	2)
Short	Single
Medium	Double
Long	Triple

"Howard" Kumagai

gotoken> I'm preparing a numecal class of single precision floating number, 
gotoken> which correspond to `float' in C. 
gotoken> Now, I cannot decide what name is suitable... `RoughFloat'? 
gotoken> `CoarseFloat'? `SmallFloat'? or another?
gotoken> Would you help me to naming?  Especially, Which do you think 
gotoken> apricate, if anything, `SmallFloat' or `RoughFloat'? 
gotoken> I am not sensitive to English :-<


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Shigetoh "Howie" Kumagai

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