--- 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

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