Re: Bug#130476: libmath-numbercruncher-perl: fails due to bigfloat?

["Neil T. Spring" <nspring@cs.washington.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:13:52PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Have a look at libstatistics-descriptive-perl, I packaged that years before
> this one.  Even has on-line/off-line mode for running stats. Upstream is
> stale for this one, but it works just fine (I use it regularly).

thanks!  I'll look into it.

> > If the presence of numbercruncher affects others who use
> > BigInt, that would be unfortunate.  If it only overrides
> > perl defaults for scripts that use NumberCruncher, I don't
> > see the harm.  My technical skills aren't here, though,
> > so don't take me seriously.
> 
> Doesn't your address reveal a CS dept :)

well, my perl skills have grown stale.  I only recently
started using "my", so I think my perl literacy is
way below par.  they don't tend to emphasize scripting
languages in CS programs, you know. :)

-neil