James Cloos:
If so, please use something compatable with ieee 754 decimal floats, so
that they can be used when running on hardware which supports them.
Even w/o such hardware, gcc (at least) has support for software
emulation of _Decimal32 and _Decimal64 (and _Decimal128?).
I think there ar
> "Karl" == Karl Brodowsky writes:
Karl> - or should there be a new numeric type similar to Rat that is always
Karl> having powers of 10 as denominator (like BigDecimal in Java or
Karl> LongDecimal for Ruby or decimal in C# or so)?
If so, please use something compatable with ieee 754 decima
Larry Wall wrote:
Another note, it's likely that numeric literals such as 1.23 will turn
into Rats rather than Nums, at least up to some precision that is
pragmatically determined.
Doing these as Rat would avoid a lot of the precision issues that
floating point
arithmetic has all the time.
