I'm not "into" the application enough.

It seems they use FP for different calculations. To do "capital
discounting", for instance, they use "**" operator and this is the most
hungry cpu consumer.

Maybe they prefer to work at the maximum precision rounding at the end.

Sorry for being not so effective.

Massimo

2017-12-14 2:00 GMT+01:00 Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net>:

> On 12 December 2017 at 11:47, Massimo Biancucci <mad4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for your support.
> >
> > One of the programs does heavy use of FP variables (mortgage
> calculation).
>
> I hate to ask, but *binary* FP for financial calculations?
>
> Tony H.
>
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