RE: Standard Decimal Arithmetic

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Moin,

On 17-Dec-01 Alex Gough tried to scribble about:
> Can I propose that we aim to support the Standard Decimal Arithmetic,
> this will allow us to make use of an extensive test suite and claim
> Enterprise-Bonus-Points at the appropriate time:
> 
> http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/

Will looking into that for Perl 5 Bigint.

> Looking through the current code, I wonder why we are bothering to
> have a distinction between the fractional and integer parts of each
> number, to me it seems simpler to use a single string of digits with a
> signed exponent as multiplying two numbers then merely requires
> multiplying the digit strings and adding the exponents directly.

You should check out Math::BigFloat and see how it deals with that.

Cheers,

Tels

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