On Tuesday, 12 February 2019 at 09:20:27 UTC, Aurélien Plazzotta
wrote:
Thank you both for your lesson Adam D. Ruppe and H.S. Teoh.
Is there a wish or someone showing one's intention to implement
into the language the hypothetical built-in 128 bit types via
the "cent" and "ucent" reserved keywords?
cent and ucent would be integers with values between
-170141183460469231731687303715884105728 to
170141183460469231731687303715884105727 and 0 to
340282366920938463463374607431768211455, respectively. Their
implementation would not mean that any kind of 128-bit float
would also be available. For bigger floating-point numbers
there's at least two packages on dub:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/stdxdecimal
https://code.dlang.org/packages/decimal
These are arbitrary-precision, and probably quite a bit slower
than any built-in floats.
--
Simen
