Hi Eike,

On 5/27/05, Eike Rathke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Kohei,
> 
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 13:18:40 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> 
> > Or to support the decimal arithmetic:
> >
> > http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
> >
> > which is one on my wish list for Calc.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> You might also be interested in the XNumbers library mentioned on
> http://www.openofficetips.com/
> that is implemented in a StarBASIC library, which IMHO could be enhanced
> by porting it to a C/C++/Java "real" AddIn to gain performance. I don't
> know its licensing though.

Nice.  From what I can see it is licensed under LGPL, so, if a port
occurs that would have to carry the same license too.

Another implementation is also found in the Python 2.4 standard
library as the Decimal class (which is where I got the idea).  I know
Python is released under BSD'ish license, so I would prefer porting
from that instead, that way a later re-licensing to, say SISSL, could
be done if that's desirable.

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida
OpenOffice.org Calc contributor
http://kohei.us/

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