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Built-in exact decimal numbers for JavaScript
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Quantum for division. #160

Closed jessealama closed 4 months ago

jessealama commented 4 months ago 
          There's one known unknown here: the selection of the quantum for division.

The reference implementation follows the calculation of the quantum as given in Mike Cowlishaw's General Decimal Arithmetic Specification. I know that that's not official spec text but I've found it to be a useful companion document. IEEE 754-2019 does specify the desired quantum, and that's what's present here in this spec text.

Originally posted by @jessealama in https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decimal/issues/159#issuecomment-2210815575

jessealama commented 4 months ago

We decided to use the official IEEE 754 spec.