need for binary floats (except performance)?

kartik kartik_vad at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 31 23:06:26 EST 2005


Since the Decimal type can represent any given fractional number
exactly, including all IEEE binary floating-point numbers, wouldn't it
be advisable to use Decimals for all floating point numbers (except
possibly for performance)?

Thanks, Kartik.



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