At 02:28 AM 1/12/2005, Martin wrote:
The folks pushing the decimal TR have been claiming that the integer subset is robust enough to handle the usual integer operations. Presumably it would include everything needed to implement fixed-point.
That is my view as well and that is why I created my decimal64 type. Do you mean that we don't need a fixed decimal type since everyone can implement it themselves using integers?
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don't know if binary would have been more useful than decimal. But since sometimes we were implementing tax related algorithms specified by law as decimal calculations, it was convenient to work in fp-decimal.
Laws are different everywhere ofcourse but the ones I have seen specify
Martin, we are going over a lot of the same ground already covered in the review of Bill Seymore's library. I think you should read through a lot of those comments. the
number of decimals to use in a calculation and not the number of digits. Did you use a fp-decimal type where you could limit the size of the mantissa?
No. The calculations involved petroleum products like propane, with volumes ranging from a few gallons to whole underground caverns full of the stuff. The volumes have to be temperature compensated with a coefficient of expansion. It gets messy. --Beman