I didn't know there were decimal floats. Are they used elsewhere?
Esteban A. Maringolo On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:20 AM Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote: > > On 16/06/2021 15:52, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > I am also a bit intrigued by this. Like you said: several other programming > > languages (I tried a couple of Common Lisp and Scheme implementations) do > > the same as Pharo, but handheld calculators, normal and scientific, do not. > > Handheld calculators use decimal floats, not binary floats. That doesn't > remove rounding issues, but it makes conversion to and from print > representations loss-free. > > > Konrad
