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From: Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscali.fr>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: OCaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What library to use for arbitrary precision decimals
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:03:34 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060219.150334.35094440.debian00@tiscali.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060219101831.GA13123@furbychan.cocan.org>

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> What library / type should I be using for arbitrary precision decimals
> - ie. floats where I can store things like currency amounts without
> getting rounding errors?

For some time I have been thinking to implement the following
spec. but I never found the time...

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:H663GV4FII4J:www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/+decimal+arithmetic&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1

Cheers,
ChriS


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-19 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-19 10:18 Richard Jones
2006-02-19 14:03 ` Christophe TROESTLER [this message]
2006-02-19 13:43 Joshua Smith
2006-02-19 15:44 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2006-02-19 16:38   ` Richard Jones
2006-02-19 16:53     ` Brian Hurt
2006-02-19 17:00       ` Richard Jones
2006-02-19 17:13         ` Richard Jones
2006-02-19 17:21   ` Jeremy Shute
2006-02-19 18:31     ` Brian Hurt

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