Is there an equivalent of the decimal type in D?

[Sean Kelly]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Unless you're simply dealing with numbers too large to be represented 
>>> exactly with floating-point (16 digits for 64-bit double, and I can't 
>>> remember the limit for 80-bit real offhand), I think it makes more 
>>> sense to use floating point internally and round to the appropriate 
>>> degree of precision for display.
>>
>> Floating point is a very bad idea for representing money.  If you're 
>> adding up currencies then you want an exact representation, not "close 
>> enough".  Sooner or later you will get bitten by rounding error if you 
>> use floats.
> 
> And this is more of a problem than rounding error with BCD?  Most BCD 
> representations I've seen only use around 6 decimal places, which is far 
> too few in some cases.

Perhaps this is my source of confusion.  Does Java's BigDecimal support 
arbitrary precision after the decimal point?


Sean