Re: Rethinking Numeric: Decimal floats, or Rounding?

2014-07-05 Thread jra...@ceridwen.us
On July 4, 2014 at 4:59 PM Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2014, 13:47:49 schrieb John Ralls: If we’re going to fix that by rounding, we have to round to a power-of-ten denominator, but we have to do it in the right places to avoid accumulating

Re: Rethinking Numeric: Decimal floats, or Rounding?

2014-07-04 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2014, 13:47:49 schrieb John Ralls: If we’re going to fix that by rounding, we have to round to a power-of-ten denominator, but we have to do it in the right places to avoid accumulating errors; for a complex multi-currency transaction that might be to round each exchange