Re: Possible improvements to the LNUM patch?

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• Subject: Re: Possible improvements to the LNUM patch?
• From: Hans Hagen <pragma@...>
• Date: 2008年4月15日 18:21:19 +0200

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glen@worstell.com wrote:

Yes, anyone doing this sort of stuff needs to understand how floating
point actually works (which I do). The reference does not discuss rounding
in financial applications, though. A better reference might be:

at the last tug conference nelson beebe has a talk about rounding issues and an upcoming decimal library

http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/talks/2007/tug2007/tug2007.pdf
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