On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:43 AM Tim Streater <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17 Dec 2018, at 04:32, D Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Banks still use, as they have for a very long time, Binary Coded > >> Decimal, or some equivalent that does not suffer from a loss of > >> accuracy, so all this foofaraw to do with floating point representation > >> of various amounts of currency does not apply to the real world. > > > As do insurance companies and many in the manufacturing world > (inventory). > > There is a lot to like about BCD. > > And do any processors/computers have hardware for that these days? > > > I don't think anyone has pointed out that the "evil" is not floating point, it is the binary exponent. Just have the exponent be a decimal number, and accept that the mantissa may have some high-order zeroes. Gerry Snyder _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
