3 Mar
2014
3 Mar
'14
6:19 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014, at 15:12, Paul Moore wrote:
Having said this, I can't actually think of a real-life domain where math-library functions (by which I assume we basically mean trancendental functions?) would be used and yet there would be a genuine need for decimal arithmetic rather than floating point. So although I'm +1 for a decimal math library in theory, I'm unsure of its practical value.
If we count non-integer powers (though, usually they're still rational), finance. I suspect though there's a better case for an arbitrary-precision library and no reason that library shouldn't be (also) able to work in decimal.