On Tue, Oct 3, 2023, 4:13 PM Saki Takamachi <s...@sakiot.com> wrote: > yes, they do, as do almost all floating points implementation. > > Memory limited float values and their respective operations are still > useful in many areas, but financial values and the likes. Scaled integers > are the way for accuracy. > > > Also, side note, gmp recommends to rely on https://www.mpfr.org/ for > accurate FP operations > > > Hi > > This seems to be a floating point number with extremely high precision > compared to regular long doubles. However, as you say, even though the > accuracy is very high, errors still occur. (the error is so small that it > almost never becomes a problem.) > > By its very nature, BCMath does not introduce any errors. It is debatable > whether floating point calculations in GMP can play the role of BCMath. >
so does gmp. The point made about gmp earlier is more about the sustainability of gmp vs bcmath.
