On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Andrew Paprocki <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Herby Vojčík <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I understand lots of apps want "native" int64 as soon as possible > > > I would love to see IEEE754r as soon as possible. Being able to represent > certain financial calculations accurately and interface with other parts of > a working system that use IEEE754r is ideal. I have found very little need > for treating full 64-bit values as Numbers within script. (They usually wind > up being unique identifiers or keys that can be passed through as > hex/strings.) These are just my observations, though.
How is IEEE754r able to more accuracy when dealing with financial calculations? I always thought that integers were enough for that purpose, all calculations being as precise as it can get. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
