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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: The disturbing myth of Eiffel portability
Date: 1996/11/20
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Date: 1996-11-20T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <3292D290.51F7@wgold.demon.co.uk>,
James Mansion  <james@wgold.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> 
>> What fool would use floating point numbers for a banking system in the first
>> place? Floating point numbers are not well suited for representing currency,
>> except if their extra mantissa bits allow you to use them as ``large
>> integers''.
>
>Hmm, what fool would make a statement like this without any
>understanding of
>derivatives trading? ;-)

Yes, I took a risk there. The only derivatives I know are in the domain
of elementary calculus, and few are interested in trading those! :)