From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] What library to use for arbitrary precision decimals
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:38:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060219163838.GA32465@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602190934300.17832@localhost.localdomain>
Before we go too far down the currency track (where I agree, using
integers is the way to go), my actual requirement is for a natural
OCaml mapping for the PostgreSQL NUMERIC/DECIMAL type:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-NUMERIC-DECIMAL
The database can define types like NUMERIC(6,4) which means 6 decimal
digits in total, 4 of them after the decimal point -- for example,
12.3456
There doesn't seem to me to be a good natural map for this type in the
stdlib.
Rich.
PS. You can find latest progress on PG'OCaml here:
http://merjis.com/tmp/pgocaml-0.3.tar.gz
I've already converted a few of our bigger programs to use this library.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-19 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-19 13:43 Joshua Smith
2006-02-19 15:44 ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2006-02-19 16:38 ` Richard Jones [this message]
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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2006-02-19 10:18 Richard Jones
2006-02-19 14:03 ` [Caml-list] " Christophe TROESTLER
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