Andrew Reilly <arei...@bigpond.net.au> writes: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:11:24 +0200 > Michael Sperber <sper...@deinprogramm.de> wrote: > >> I'll point out that floating-point vs. BCD or something like it is SO >> not an issue with the real-world financial calculations the SEC is >> worried about. (Well, it is an issue for the calculations, but it is >> not an issue for the people doing them.) Most everyone in that >> community has long accepted binary floating-point as completely adequate >> for doing financial calculations for complex products. > > That would be why Python and Java (at least) now have decimal > floating point data types, and why the new IBM P7 processors have > decimal floating point in hardware, and why the IEEE have > ratified decimal floating point extensions to IEEE-754. (Check > out the Wikipedia entry for IEEE 754-2008 for a quick overview.)
No, it isn't. You may want to re-read what I wrote. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
