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Re: bohemians, gentry

• To: Leigh.Klotz@p... (Klotz, Leigh)
• Subject: Re: bohemians, gentry
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 00:34:46 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: dareo@m... ('Dare Obasanjo'), jonathan.robie@d... ('Jonathan Robie'), rsalz@d... ('Rich Salz'), xml-dev@l... ('XML DEV')
• In-reply-to: <51B8ABCE456FD111899900805F6FD6EE11470ED1@m...> from "Klotz, Leigh" at Dec 05, 2002 04:27:12 PM

Klotz, Leigh scripsit:

> Mike Cowlishaw of IBM has a small decimal arithmetic package which performs
> arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic, and I believe he would certainly
> like it to be widespread and interoperable across multiple platforms and
> programming languages.  See
> http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/decifaq1.html for an FAQ.

This is IIRC closely related to the netrexx.language.Rexx class that I mentioned,
but stripped of the string features (a Rexx is a number and a string and
a hashtable all at once).

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders."
        --Hal Abelson

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