Perhaps I'm doing something wrong or using the library outside of its intended purpose, but I found that this library doesn't handle Muller's Recurrence correctly. For those not familiar, Muller's Recurrence is 108 - (815-1500/z)/y
https://play.golang.org/p/sePTgjZzHeY See https://latkin.org/blog/2014/11/22/mullers-recurrence-roundoff-gone-wrong/ On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 8:46:16 AM UTC-8, Robert Engels wrote: > > Which is exactly what github.com/robaho/fixed and many others do! > > On Jan 26, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Michael Jones <michae...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > ...thus the virtue of scaled integers. scaling by 100 makes cents whole, > scaling by 10000*100 gives four decimal places beyond that. There is > nothing bad about floating point despite the reputation, it's just not the > number system from algebra; nor is binary floating point the same as > decimal floating point. The problems all start with false presumptions. > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 8:20 AM Robert Engels <ren...@ix.netcom.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Just an FYI, often that is not correct. Many financial systems require >> fractional pennies due to the volume of transactions. Think about taxing >> stock exchanges.... the pennies add up quickly at any tax rate, so they use >> fractional pennies to reduce the size of the error bucket. >> >> On Jan 26, 2020, at 8:50 AM, Pat Farrell <pat2...@gmail.com <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> >> never use floating point if you are trying to represent money, say >> dollars and cents or decimal values of the euro. >> Store the money as integer number of pennies. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/cc852ce3-6f88-40fd-8b19-877c76deec10%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/cc852ce3-6f88-40fd-8b19-877c76deec10%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/AF9827F5-C849-4F4E-8229-005D6C9A0E03%40ix.netcom.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/AF9827F5-C849-4F4E-8229-005D6C9A0E03%40ix.netcom.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > *Michael T. jonesmichae...@gmail.com <javascript:>* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/46cadc14-9c8e-4c3a-9c6b-d0af7b621061%40googlegroups.com.
