tiny-bignum-c VS arpra

Compare tiny-bignum-c vs arpra and see what are their differences.

arpra

Arpra is a C library for analyzing the propagation of numerical error in arbitrary precision IEEE-754 floating-point computations. (by arpra-project)
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2 2
466 25
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4.6 0.0
over 1 year ago over 3 years ago
C C
The Unlicense GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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tiny-bignum-c

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arpra

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  • Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? [pdf]
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2025
    In most cases the data a kalman filter is working on has some precision which is much lower than the available precision in the floating format you are using. The problem is inherently a statistical one, since the expected precision depends on the statistics of your data source.

    So you would probably adopt some conservative approach in which you showed that the worst case floating point rounding error is << some quantile of error due to the data.

    But, I think specialised tools are more commonly used than general process. Eg, see https://github.com/arpra-project/arpra

  • Is there a language which can keep track of the potential epsilon error when doing calculations?
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 6 Jan 2022
    I don't know why everyone else is talking about bignums, but this is a fairly common subject of interest with lots of research projects out there. Off the top of my head Arpra, and CADNA. Julia also has IntervalArithmetic.jl which can be used with some manual work. None of these are core language features, but I don't imagine that was an important part of the question.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tiny-bignum-c and arpra you can also consider the following projects:

gmp-extensions - Extending GNU MP library.

macadam - Async node.js interface to Blackmagic Design capture and playback devices.

BigNumber - C++ class for creating and computing arbitrary-length integers

screamer - Screamer is an extension of Common Lisp that adds support for nondeterministic programming.

gmp-wasm - Fork of the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP), suitable for compilation into WebAssembly.

verificarlo - A tool for debugging and assessing floating point precision and reproducibility.

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