On 5/10/2010 7:01 PM, James Knott wrote:
JOE Conner wrote:
Not at all, because the same number is also be used for date AND time.
Both date and time are normally integers. Like with money, you
wouldn't normally use floating point because you can't be guaranteed a
correct result. With FP, you can get round off errors.
Round off with fp numbers occurs when you do arithmetic. Nothing but
comparisons and swaps are used in sorting.
Now I'm curious. Are arithmetic operations used on dates? Could round
off be a concern?
--DBTsr
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