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Rick Jelliffe scripsit: > The concrete example is the one currently under discussion in various places: that in > XML Schemas datatypes you cannot represent any exact amounts that > have decimal positions. So the decimal "1.1" is not the exact number 1.1. > This will be well-known to most people who have done undergraduate > computer science, and for a catch up, see Sun's BigDecimal documentation. So bag BigDecimal and use a real decimal-number class such as netrexx.lang.Rexx, which represents 1.1 exactly and even knows that 2 * 1.20 is 2.40. http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx/nrdocs.html -- John Cowan jcowan@r... http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Most languages are dramatically underdescribed, and at least one is dramatically overdescribed. Still other languages are simultaneously overdescribed and underdescribed. Welsh pertains to the third category. --Alan King
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