--- Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Al Chou wrote: > > But if we were to have use cases in which exactness was paramount, very > high > > precision (or perhaps using a RationalNumber class) would of course be the > > right thing to provide. > > And of course, you can quickly waste 50 digits of individual value > representation precision with bad numerics ;-) > > Phil
Ah-yup. Accuracy/precision, like security and so many other things (e.g., performance), is vulnerable to the weakest-link-in-the-chain effect. Al __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
