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Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss |
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Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:07:03 +0200 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Decimal numbers are "inexact". [...]
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>> ok, scrap decimals then.
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> Not necessarily. There are decimal floating point libraries which can
> handle decimal numbers in an exact way.
Guile can most certainly deal with exact rational numbers, and that is
enough to represent decimal numbers exactly.
> However, I don't think that this is something we should consider in
> the near future.
Agreed.
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David Kastrup
Re: [GLISS] why the hell all this fuss, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2012/09/08
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