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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: exponentiation of fixed point or decimal
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 01:31:29 GMT
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In article <87hf46uah6.fsf@moon.mteege.de>,
  Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de> wrote:
>
> Moin,
>
> I have a question about exponentiation of fixed
point typs. The
> following code didnt compile because of the '**'
operator is not
> defined for fixed point typs. So I made a lot of
type conversions from
> my fixed point type to float


Why on earth did you chose type Float, is 6 digits
*really* enough accuracy for your "financial
application"?


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