On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, L wrote:
> > > The programmer definitely should care. He has to make the right choice > > in what type he chooses, so he must be aware of any 'quircks' of the type > > he is using, and that includes how things are rounded and how they are > > stored in memory. That's why there are IEEE references for this. > > > > It's his job to make sure that the end user gets something sensible on the > > screen, and that includes rounding to a usable number of digits. > > Agree. > > > > > The currency type calculates with a certain precision for you if you really > > don't want to be bothered with the gory details. The opposite side of the > > medal is that it's limited to 4 digits, and cannot be larger than 2^59 or > > thereabouts. > > > > As long as there is some type where you can treat the language like a regular > old dumb casio calculator that was used in grade school math, then I'm happy. > I > haven't done much currency work or float work with Pascal and wanted to > confirm > there was at least a dumb/simple high level decimal type out there somewhere > for > when you need one ;-) Currency should do fine, as long as you don't need more than 4 decimal places. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
