From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: fixed point vs floating point (When do you use it ?)
Date: 1997/11/27
Date: 1997-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65kgtt$289@lotho.delphi.com> (raw)
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>Most obviously, information systems are typically much more appropriately
>programmed using fixed-point
A stocks & commodities database I know of uses fixed point. Stocks have a
delta of 1/8 (though that is supposed to change to decimal soon) and
different commodities have a bunch of different deltas.
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1997-11-27 0:00 tmoran [this message]
1997-11-27 0:00 ` fixed point vs floating point (When do you use it ?) Robert Dewar
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1997-11-28 0:00 tmoran
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