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Two little notes I forgot in my previous announcement: 1) I will be on vacation and probably won't be able to check email until probably July 9. 2) If someone wants a non-trivial but finite project that would help Kawa (and specifically help finish the format routine), I would love to have someone implement the floating-point conversion code. Ideally, I would like to have someone transcribe David Gay's code from C into Java, but using the gnu.math MPN and IntNum classes, instead of Gay's bignum implementation. Gay's code is in: ftp://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/fp/gdtoa.tar.gz The specific function needed is a Java version of dtoa.c. The challenge is to understand the numerics well enough to re-implement the (lightly-commented) algorithms in Java. This task may also be useful for free re-implementations of java.text.DeciamlFormat and java.lang.Double.toString. --Per Bothner Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner