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if your dealing with currencies you can’t use fractions. Unrepresentative decimal values (.33, .34, .66) are non trivial without many bits of fraction space. Y
by valarauca1 9y ago
if your dealing with currencies you can’t use fractions. Unrepresentative decimal values (.33, .34, .66) are non trivial without many bits of fraction space.
Your IEEE standard for floating points has a lot of complex rules and standard binary layouts to ensure these values are represented.
You end up needing a lot more space and rules than just diving by 10^3
- vidarh 9y agoOf course you can use fractions. You can't reasonably use binary fractions. But the discussion is about fixed point representations, not floating point anyway.