Decimal Floating Point types.

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Oct 29 12:03:13 PDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:43:35PM +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Speaking on behalf of Dejan, he expressed a wish to have such a type
> in D. (eg: such that assert(3.6 * 10 == 36.0) - which may not always
> be true on all architectures).
> 
> As maybe a new backend type is out of the question.  Perhaps we
> should create a new library type for the job - eg: _Decimal32,
> _Decimal64, _Decimal128.
[...]

Implementing it in the library makes sense.


T

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