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Inspired by this article:
https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-python-compares-floats-and-ints
And this embed:
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Would it make sense to have an "unlimited" precision floating point library?
It could be build on top of bignum primitives. I think that would be quite a unique feature.
To pull it off, there would …
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https://github.com/frappe/frappe/blob/1a563164d7ed85f46c26a685eabd326b101456e6/frappe/database/mariadb/database.py#L147
So far, we've been storing values in the Database in lossless formats (`Decim…
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Reported 12/3/2013 during followup on timeline-building.
Extraneous decimal places sometimes appear in cost graph and cannot be suppressed. Additionally, these overlap and hinder readability.
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While looking into current issues around BigDecimal (#10502, #5714, #10599, #9547, #9578) it became apparent that the current implementation is lacking.
Our implementation is based on https://githu…
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It seems that C23 will contain **native** support for *decimal* floating point number types. I think new languages (like Passerine) should also provide native support for *decimal* floating point as a…
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I'd like to add some information to the docs about modeling money. This has come up many times on the MLs of the various Smalltalk flavors, and Aconcagua has been mentioned many times. However, even a…
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Currently, the range proposal supports all floating-point numbers. I briefly mentioned the precision issue of floating-point numbers in https://github.com/tc39/proposal-Number.range/issues/57:
> it…
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What we wish to have as features:
- [x] `Res` object to give our results: numerical value, error, unit,
- [x] Output customizable via global options (no TOML file instead global export config)
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