Re: Decimal: Formal review begins.

From: Ivan Matek (libbooze_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-01-19 21:03:01

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM Kostas Savvidis via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> For general mathematical use, and any sort of scientitic calculations, I
> am now 100% convinced decimals must not be used.
>
> The only other conceivable use, to write a spreadsheet and/or calculator
> software,
> but again there is nothing in the docs to inform us how is this supposed
> to be accomplished.
>
> I presume you consider Machine Learning scientific computation and they
use fp8. :)
It all depends on what you need.
Decimal is nice because humans use base10. That does not mean we can
represent all numbers with it, beside obvious like 𝜋 or ℯ another example
is
1/7 is 0.*142857*142857...   (notice the period).

I think this is nice short recap
https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/qpi486/comment/hjtxkv7/