9 Aug
2019
9 Aug
'19
9:09 p.m.
Andrew Barnert wrote:
Except that it doesn’t allow that. Using Decimal doesn’t preserve the difference between 1.0000E+3 and 1000.0, or between +12 and 12.
That's true. But it does preserve everything that's important for interpreting it as a numerical value without losing any precision, which I think is enough of an improvement to recommend having it as an option. -- Greg