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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: fixed point vs floating point (When do you use it ?)
Date: 1997/11/27
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Date: 1997-11-27T00:00:00+00:00
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(thread moved from chat@gnat.com)
>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.