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Re: E.P E. E.EXACT

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In article <2026Aug22.200338@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl writes:
>>I am a physicist. Floating point numbers represent some physical quantity.
>
>Floating-point numbers represent whatever the programmer who uses them
>intends them to represent, and it does not matter whether you are a
>physicist.  I have read about people who have used FP for financial
>calculations (I would scale money amounts to cents, tenths of cents,
>or so to avoid the typical inexactness of values like 0.1e in the
>common case, though), and others who have used them for integer
>calculations beyond 32-bit numbers.

Financial people should not use inexact numbers. If you are counting
cents, integers are entirely appropriate and there is no inexactness to avoid.

>
>- anton
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E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-05 18:02 +0000
  Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 08:13 -0500
    Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 14:00 +0000
      Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 10:45 -0500
        Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 15:58 +0000
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 17:20 +0000
        Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-06 21:05 +0200
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 20:38 +0000
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 18:44 -0500
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-07 11:03 +1000
            Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-07 10:11 +0000
              Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-08 14:39 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-08 06:32 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 04:50 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 20:01 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 18:06 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 17:24 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 14:01 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-10 22:10 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-11 04:56 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-11 22:16 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-12 05:47 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-08-12 18:03 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-12 11:48 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-08 09:14 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-08 09:40 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-08 15:26 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 16:43 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 13:43 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-09 07:19 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 19:15 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-10 13:17 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 22:59 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 23:54 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-10 20:42 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 17:10 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-12 14:04 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:43 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 15:47 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 18:27 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 16:40 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 19:42 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 18:03 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 22:56 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-23 00:50 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-23 12:25 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 14:52 +0200
            Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-07 07:50 -0500
              Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-08 12:33 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 17:01 +0200
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:15 +0200

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