Fw: Question about JEP 306.

[David Holmes]

Adding core-libs-dev as both mailing lists are named in this JEP.

David

On 6/12/2017 11:02 AM, A Z wrote:
> -I have been wondering what interest, focus or progress
> 
> is happening around OpenJDK JEP 306:
> 
> 
> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306
> 
> 
> -As a Java feature request, could I request feature 306?
> Underflow and overflow need to be eliminated
> from double and float.
> 
> There could be an associativefp option. It should also be the case
> that there should be a round half up for the decimal place
> beyond the last one in the float or double range, to help support
> all notions of
> 
> (pow(sqrt(3),2) == 3)  //true
> 
> 
> -The other thing that there should be is a StrictMath
> that works for BigInteger and BigDecimal, allowing:
> 
> pow(BigDecimal,BigDecimal)
> pi(...)
> e(...)
> sin(Bigdecimal)
> asin(Bigdecimal) ...
> 
> which would allow for any power at all, as well as the nth root.
> It is also a good idea to include a radians and degrees version
> of all the trig functions.
>