I think we're allowed to say that their work functions properly with amounts represented as floating point numbers in most but not all cases. I think I allowed to add that they also said if "accounting where involved, you would need a different data type."
On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Nothing interesting to report (we've talked). > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <ge...@knauth.org> wrote: >> I wonder what the OCaml folks at Jane Street Capital have to say about all >> this. >> >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 03:12, Michael Sperber wrote: >> >>> John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> writes: >>> >>>> Relevant background question: does anyone know how they picked Python? >>>> This information would probably tell us a lot about what it is that >>>> they're looking for. >>> >>> My own guess is that the guy who did the picking was at one point using >>> a product that had Python as an extension language. (For bonds and >>> bond-related products, FrontArena PRIME is pretty popular, and that uses >>> Python, for instance.) >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > PRL mailing list > p...@lists.ccs.neu.edu > https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/prl _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
