[boost] Re: Lets restart the decimal type discussion

From: Stefan Slapeta (stefan_nospam__at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-13 19:36:58

Martin wrote:
>>IMO any kind of automatic rounding and precision should not be part of a 
>>basic_decimal type at all!
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> 
> I assume you mean that we don't need a decimal type with a fixed number of 
> decimals. There is an extension to the propsed standard that allows fixed 
> number of decimals so there seem to be some who need it. 
> 

No, I'm sure that wasn't my intention.

>>The behaviour of basic_decimal should stick 
>>to the decimal proposal of Mike Cowlishaw and he explains very well in 
>>his FAQ section why it's not a good idea to have normalized decimal 
>>arithmetic:
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> 
> Why do you mention "normalized decimal arithmetic"? Isn't that a way store 
> floating point numbers or do you mean something else.
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> 

Did you read this proposal?

br,

Stefan