> The programmer definitely should care. He has to make the right choice > in what type he chooses, so he must be aware of any 'quircks' of the type > he is using, and that includes how things are rounded and how they are > stored in memory. That's why there are IEEE references for this. > > It's his job to make sure that the end user gets something sensible on the > screen, and that includes rounding to a usable number of digits.
Agree. > > The currency type calculates with a certain precision for you if you really > don't want to be bothered with the gory details. The opposite side of the > medal is that it's limited to 4 digits, and cannot be larger than 2^59 or > thereabouts. > As long as there is some type where you can treat the language like a regular old dumb casio calculator that was used in grade school math, then I'm happy. I haven't done much currency work or float work with Pascal and wanted to confirm there was at least a dumb/simple high level decimal type out there somewhere for when you need one ;-) L505 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
