On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, greg_l_at_wikipedia <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > In the final analysis, no real "math" is performed on these > significands; > all that is happening is delimiters (either a comma or a <span> gap)
Division is very much math and has significant implications on precision. You might think that by dividing only in powers of 10 you are avoiding precision problems, but you would be wrong because the computer isn't doing math in base 10. > are being applied every three characters until there is only two, three, > or four characters left. I am still rather surprised that there aren't > some > simple, bug-free string functions that could tackle this task. This > would > allow significands of unlimited length. There exist plenty of such string functions. Every proper programming language provides them. The parser functions, however, do not. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
