Re: [xml-dev] What is this principle called: "I' send data in my UOMand

[Frank Richards <frank@therichards.org>]

1. I'd bet Walter rather than Len.

2.
 My swag at the best choice would be the textual equivalent of single 
precision IEEE floating point. At this late date, any system that uses 
something besides IEEE floating point is strictly legacy. Depending on 
what the community was about, double precision might be necessary. 
However I'm so old that back in slide rule days I had many a professor 
talk at length about the difference between precision and accuracy. The 
number of applications where the accuracy requires double precision 
remains very small.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

Hi Folks,

Suppose that every member in a community is required to exchange data using one unit of measure....