Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-25 Thread Christian Stimming (mobil)
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

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-25 Thread John Ralls
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

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-25 Thread John Ralls
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

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-05-25 Thread John Ralls
On 25 May 2014, at 07:19, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: 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