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Financial calculations for example. Plus, IEEE floats just plain give the
wrong answer sometimes.
Try 9/10/10, an from
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decifaq1.html#inexact
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:57 PM
To: Roger L. Costello
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Avoiding roundoff errors in calculations?
Roger L. Costello wrote:
> What are your thoughts on this? What techniques do people use to avoid
> introducing roundoff errors? /Roger
Use FORTRAN, it supports REAL numbers, it says so right in the syntax :)
I'm curious; what applications require more precision than IEEE double? -Tim
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