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Postings from December 2001
Can I propose that we aim to support the Standard Decimal Arithmetic, this will allow us to make use of an extensive test suite and claim Enterprise-Bonus-Points at the appropriate time: http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/ Looking through the current code, I wonder why we are bothering to have a distinction between the fractional and integer parts of each number, to me it seems simpler to use a single string of digits with a signed exponent as multiplying two numbers then merely requires multiplying the digit strings and adding the exponents directly. Alex Gough -- However many ways there my be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead.Thread Next