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Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library

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From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Date	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:05:40 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:16:04 +0000, Tom Anderson wrote:

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> It is currency-related. What's wrong with that?
>
I take it there is a mandatory and tightly specified set of operations 
for currency conversion (or equivalent) involved in what you need to do?

If so, I've been there and they're usually specified that way to overcome 
the deficiencies and rounding errors inherent in fixed point decimal 
arithmetic as it is/was usually implemented in assembler or COBOL on 
hardware that uses binary integers or BCD.

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Fixed-point arithmetic library Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-02-22 21:39 +0000
  Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-02-22 22:59 +0100
    Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-02-23 21:15 +0000
      Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library markspace <-@.> - 2012-02-23 13:53 -0800
      Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-23 23:21 +0100
      Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-02-24 00:02 +0100
  Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-22 23:13 +0100
    Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-22 14:59 -0800
      Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-02-23 01:05 +0000
        Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-02-23 21:21 +0000
          Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-23 13:49 -0800
      Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-02-23 21:16 +0000
        Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-23 14:03 -0800
          Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-02-23 14:42 -0800
            Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-23 15:08 -0800
        Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-02-23 23:05 +0000
    Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-02-27 00:59 +0000
      Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 20:50 -0500
        Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-27 07:32 +0100
          Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-02-27 13:46 +0100
  Re: Fixed-point arithmetic library Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-24 16:26 -0800

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