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Data type representing 'Money'
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Date: | 2009-05-17 (16:15) |
From: | Harrison, John R <john.r.harrison@i...> |
Subject: | RE: [Caml-list] Data type representing 'Money' |
The recent revision of the IEEE Standard 754 for binary floating-point arithmetic added specifications for decimal floating-point types, specifically designed for use in financial applications. In the long term, OCaml support for these may be a good idea. Intel provides a library with a fairly portable software implementation of the new decimal types here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floating-point-math-library/ And if you want to find out more about decimal arithmetic, there are several talks and a special session on the subject at this year's Computer Arithmetic conference, the early registration deadline for which is tomorrow :-) http://www.ac.usc.es/arith19/ John.