Decimal Arithmetic module available

[BCS]

Hello Don,

> Paul D. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> I've been working on an arbitrary-precision floating-point module for
>> a while and have uploaded the source to DSource.
>> (www.dsource.org/projects/decimal)
>> 
>> It's an implementation of the General Decimal Arithmetic
>> Specification, Version 1.70, March 2009.
>> (www.speleotrove.com/decimal). It contains most of the specified
>> arithmetic operations (except exponential and logarithmic operations)
>> and miscellaneous operations (except for logical and rotate/shift
>> operations).
>> 
>> I would appreciate feedback, especially with regard to the
>> implementation of the context for the operations.
>> 
>> The current implementation compiles with D version 2.30, so does not
>> incorporate the new operator overloading.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
> Awesome! Hmm, I really need to get my BigInt modules into D2 so that
> you can use them.
> 

Ditto my united type: http://www.dsource.org/projects/scrapple/browser/trunk/units/si2.d
(I'll tweak it and/or the license as needed to get it in).

Maybe we need a std.arithmetic.* for all the "a little more than just a number" 
types.

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