On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:10:13 -0400, David Abrahams wrote > "Jeff Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Jeff G wrote: > >> I'm thinking it would have to be defined like this > >> Duration / Duration --> Integer > >> > >>I think Duration / Duration --> double would be more appropriate. > > > > I have intentionally avoided floating point types in the library > > because there is no reason to suffer the loss of correctness > > associated with these types. > > Huh? > > 3/2 == 1 > > is correct?
Yes. Of course to make this useful you will need % as well. > You get a much bigger round-off error from ints than from floats. Yes, but you know what you are getting up front. With floats you don't know until runtime what the round-off will be. Anyway, I have yet to here a compelling use case in this domain for using non-integer arithmetic. Jeff _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
