Message-ID: <loom.20120702T032954-809@post.gmane.org> Hi Andrew, Would you be able to provide a short summary of the advantages, disadvantages or significant differences of your proposal versus the boost multi-precision library or the C++ std decimal proposal? Regards, Josh. The std decimal proposal seems to centre *IEEE 754-2008 * *hardware or slow software. My proposal is simple to make accounting safer to similar to SQL (NUMERIC and DECIMAL) using all hardware (including * *IEEE 754-2008 for IBM) but also in embedded processors.* * * *I *terminal brain cancer so I want to keep these out 'there'. http://ajrobb.livejournal.com/6918.html "I have expressive dyspepsia caused by terminal grade 4 glioblastoma mutiforme brain cancer" so writing and talking are difficult. Regards, Andrew Robb