UNDER RECONSTRUCTION

1. by Dennis Darland dennis.darland@yahoo.com

   dennisdarland.com

   Comments welcome

2. Initially developed as procedures in Icon then reworked as classes & overloaded operators in Unicon.
3. Reworked much more elegantly in Ruby. Mostly because of greatly increased knowledge of problem from having done it before. Also conciseness of Ruby.
4. 2/3/2010 Start development of regression test for APFP (Ruby program to generate a Ruby Program to generate a Maple Program to compare answers.
5. 2/5/2010 Test program for APFP almost finished.
   
6. 2/6/2010 Test program basically finished - tests ran OK on sin, cos and tan.
   
7. 2/7/2010 Tested all functions - fixed some problems - log, log10 and sqrt not as accurate as desired.
   sinh and tanh also had one problem.
   
8. 2/8/2010 Enhanced information in Exception file and added time info. Maple took about 16 minutes clock time - but I didn't find a function for that.
   
9. 2/13/2010 Struggling with how to compute logarithms - I see what is wrong - but not how to fix it.
10. 2/13/2010 Fixed problems with logarithms and other less difficult problems. Links to programs and results below.
    Maple produces results almost immediately if screen output is suppressed by using ":" instead of ";"
11. 2/15/2010 Correction to calculation of pertentage
The Ruby Program to generate a Ruby program to generate a Maple test program
The generated Ruby program to generate a Maple test program
The generated Maple test program
Test Results - Just all functions
Test Results EXCEPTIONS - all functions
Ap.rb
ApConfig.rb
Apc.rb
Apfp.rb
Real.rb
NOTE about purpose of Apfp. I am trying to write an arbitrary precision floating point with a capability of tracking the possoible error in values calculated from possible error in input or through rounding error. It is very slow, but its purpose is not speed. It is mainly an experiment to see how errors may propogate in calculations. In fact, in the tests above I am calculating to only 16 digits. But in practical applications I doubt if inputs are often known to this accuracy. Larger input errors can be specified as +/-error in literals. I think some improvements in both speed and accuracy are still possible - but it will never be very fast.

12. Worked on Documentation: (via simple sample program)
    Sample program with comments
    Results are in: (I haven't checked all of them closely - I did check the comparison operators and made some improvements
    The tests above were also updated.
    Results from sample program.
    Generated rdoc files [documentation]
    
13. Sourceforge Project Apfp page APFP PAGE
14. Dennis J. Darland