Extending TEX and METAFONT with floating-point arithmetic
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The article surveys the state of arithmetic in TEX and METAFONT, suggests that they could usefully be extended to support floating-point arithmetic, and shows how this could be done with a relatively small effort, without loss of the important feature of platform-independent results from those programs, and without invalidating any existing documents, or software written for those programs, including output drivers.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007