March 20, 2010
11:46 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
* Decimal and float really belong side-by-side in the tower, rather than one above the other. Neither of them is inherently any more precise or exact than the other.
Except that float is fixed-width (typically 53 bits of precision), while Decimal allows a user-specified, arbitrarily large, precision; so in that sense the two floating-point types aren't on an equal footing. Mark