On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 08:27:52 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 08:23:40 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
My brother in law writes financial apps, and in that field,
using floating points type is *legally* forbidden.
Really? What kind of apps?
I meant "apps" as in short for program, not phone "apps". It's
complicated to explain, but in a word, He basically programs
distributed servers to do stock trading. I'm not allowed to talk
about it much, especially on some random board :(
About the whole "legally forbidden" thing: I'm not sure it is the
entire "financial" field, but definitly in the accounting field.
