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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: missing import java.lang.Comparable
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:56:19 -0400
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On 7/19/2016 9:33 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 7/19/2016 8:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/19/2016 4:37 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> And you still haven't described how Java (not javascript) handles
>>> decimal numbers with at least 18 digits of accuracy.
>>
>> It has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread.
>>
>> BigDecimal.
>
> Except there are two problems with it.  It is very slow, compared to a
> native BCD implementation.

Calendar says 2016 not 1986. Not really a problem.

>                       And it doesn't support the DECIMAL type in
> databases.

Not correct. It does.

Arne