On 25 May 2014, at 01:54, Christian Stimming (mobil) <christ...@cstimming.de> wrote:
> Thanks for starting the discussion. > > If we've reached the point where our int64 rational numbers do not fit our > problem requirements anymore, I'd rather look for a different number > representation that fits our application domain better. I'm thinking about > replacing rational numbers by decimal floating point numbers. That is, a > number is represented by m * 10^e with the mantissa m and exponent e as > signed integers. This is different from our normal *binary* floating point in > that we use the exponent with base 10. However, all common rules for floating > point can be applied just as normal. By the way, maybe there is even a > standard comparable to IEEE 754 available? > > Just another possible way to proceed for solving this problem... Is this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point what you're talking about? If so, it says that the IEEE spec is 854, and answers some of my questions, but leaves out database support. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
