Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-06-03 Thread Wm Tarr
On 25/05/2014 15:07, John Ralls wrote: Database support? Remember, one of the requirements is that the database fields need to be summable in queries, so any database we use for the backend has to support the numeric representation. The ones on offer in the popular SQL databases are 64-bit

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-06-03 Thread John Ralls
On Jun 3, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Wm Tarr wm.t...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/05/2014 15:07, John Ralls wrote: Database support? Remember, one of the requirements is that the database fields need to be summable in queries, so any database we use for the backend has to support the numeric

Re: Rethinking Numeric and rounding

2014-06-03 Thread Wm Tarr
On 01/06/2014 21:07, Christian Stimming wrote: From my point of view the problem is still not yet understood completely here. IMHO the problem is not too much rounding -- the problem instead is too little rounding. What are the exact requirements on the handling of rounding and overflow from