Re: Possible improvements to the LNUM patch?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

glen@worstell.com wrote:

> Yes, anyone doing this sort of stuff needs to understand how floating
> point actually works (which I do). The reference does not discuss rounding
> in financial applications, though. A better reference might be:

at the last tug conference nelson beebe has a talk about rounding issues 
and an upcoming decimal library

http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/talks/2007/tug2007/tug2007.pdf

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