Re: Re: XSLT 2.0 Decimal number silliness

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Subject: Re: Re: XSLT 2.0 Decimal number silliness
From: Jeff Kenton <jkenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:34:39 -0500

Rowland Shaw wrote:

Maybe I'm being really dumb here, but what is the difference between a
decimal number and a floating point number?

Decimals are potentially infinite precision decimal numbers. Minimum precision is 18 decimal digits. This means that 0.444 and 0.666 are exactly represented as decimals, even though their floating point representations are approximate.

From the Schema spec:

3.2.3 decimal

[Definition:] decimal represents a subset of the real numbers, which can be represented by decimal numerals. The 7value space7 of decimal is the set of numbers that can be obtained by multiplying an integer by a non-positive power of ten, i.e., expressible as i W 10^-n where i and n are integers and n >= 0.

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Re: Re: XSLT 2.0 Decimal number silliness, (continued) Andrew Curry - Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:21:37 -0500 (EST) Jeff Kenton - Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:38:45 -0500 (EST) Andrew Curry - Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:39:37 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:51:35 -0500 (EST) Jeff Kenton - Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:33:39 -0500 (EST) <= David Tolpin - Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:08:07 -0500 (EST)

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