"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Years ago I worked on some general business applications involving liquid > inventories dealing in tank dimensions, gallons, coefficients of expansion, > and all sorts of other non-money related data. Fixed-point arithmetic was > essential for those general business applications even though they aren't > strictly speaking financial or money related. (The reasons floating point > won't do is the legal and business need mandated others, including > government regulators, to be able to repeat the exact computation, and > produce the exact answer.)
Beman, Could you elaborate a little more about the requirements to use fixed point instead of floating point. Not being an expert in the area, I don't see many use cases where fixed point would be preferable to floating point. I really would appreciate if you described your ones. Misha Bergal MetaCommunications _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
