>> That's true at very extreme margins only! Decimal does not fail to round >> power-of-five products so badly, and I think you know this. > > I know, and just after what you quoted I said "unless we know we'll > stay in base 10". It's a fact that if you venture outside of base 10 > you'll get more accurate results using k-bit binary than k-bit > decimal.
Just to avoid confusion: when I say base 10 I mean numbers like 0.1 and 1343.41 as opposed to 1/3 and pi. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
