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Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:54:23 PDT7
From:	"Gregory W. Smith" <gsmith@well.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Object-Oriented Programming

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And to really wander out into the briar patch:
Do we want to use BCD floating point to solve our Merton-Scholes
differential equations for options pricing?
-- Greg
> In <200308110227.h7B2REoK003180@well.com>, on 08/10/03
> at 07:25 PM, "Gregory W. Smith" said:
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>
> > PDP-10: REAL --> 36-bit, binary radix
> > DOUBLE PRECISION --> 72-bit, binary radix
> > 4341: REAL --> 32-bit, hexadecimal radix
> > DOUBLE PRECISION --> 64-bit, hexadecimal radix
>
> Meandering outside the scientific world, those that want the ease of using
> floating point in business apps really want decimal radix with appropriate
> rounding.
>
> Steven
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