A lot of people here are proposing that decimal fixed point is just as good or better than decimal floats. I'm a little skeptical of this, based on my experience with scientific computation: there are ...

A way to represent very large and very small numbers using the same quantity of numeric positions. Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point ...

decimal: 16592 hex: 40D0 bin: 0100 0000 1101 0000 S EEEEEEEE FFFFFFF 0 10000001 1010000 + 2^(129-127) * 1.101 = + 6.5 ...

64-bit integers are adequate to deal with most banking and financial calculations today. Not all numbers used in finance are integers. Consider exchange rates and interest rates, for a start. If you ...