From: "Harrison, John R" <john.r.harrison@intel.com>
To: "caml-list@yquem.inria.fr" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Cc: "Harrison, John R" <john.r.harrison@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Data type representing 'Money'
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:15:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC67582D4FC8ED45BAABE48343BF57110358D26515@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090517091042.112814ytzw8ni3ci@webmail.imag.fr>
The recent revision of the IEEE Standard 754 for binary floating-point
arithmetic added specifications for decimal floating-point types,
specifically designed for use in financial applications. In the long
term, OCaml support for these may be a good idea.
Intel provides a library with a fairly portable software implementation
of the new decimal types here:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floating-point-math-library/
And if you want to find out more about decimal arithmetic, there are
several talks and a special session on the subject at this year's
Computer Arithmetic conference, the early registration deadline for
which is tomorrow :-)
http://www.ac.usc.es/arith19/
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-17 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-16 7:27 Conglun Yao
2009-05-17 2:23 ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2009-05-17 7:10 ` Florent.Ouchet
2009-05-17 16:15 ` Harrison, John R [this message]
2009-05-17 11:29 ` Richard Jones
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