Decimal Floating Point types.

[Dmitry Olshansky]

10/29/2012 6:43 PM, Iain Buclaw пишет:
> 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.
>
> Thoughts?

I recall there was proposal for Phobos with both fixed decimal floating 
point types and arbitrary precision variants.

And taking the role of good jinn:
https://github.com/andersonpd/decimal/tree/master/decimal

(seems very much alive and kicking)

>
> Regards
> Iain.


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Dmitry Olshansky