On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:04 PM, WT<jrca...@gmail.com> wrote: > NSDecimalNumbers would be useless, if that were true. The whole point of > having NSDecimalNumbers is to be able to preserve precision.
Seems like you're confusing precision with sigfigs. NSDecimalNumbers exist because IEEE floating point doesn't represent a useful subset of the real numbers when doing base-10 arithmetic. They are not arbitrary-precision, sigfig-retaining numbers. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
