On 5/16/2020 4:48 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
Answering my own problem here.
I've just searched through the mailing list archives and it seems that if I add [instance=doublefun] I do not get the Arithmetic Overflow error. Joy! fwiw, we have also instance=decimalfun
concerning arithmic: in metapost we have scaled : upto 4K bp double : 64 bit floats decimal : configurable accuracy complex : dual doubles (only in luametafun) in lmtx lua we have: integer : lua tries to be clever but mixing leads to double float : lua tries to be clever decimal : userdata arbitrary precision (only in lmtx) complex : userdata dual doubles (only in lmtx) (in lmtx we have an extended math library and these function are also available in luametafun) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------