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Floating point numbers aren't special data types either. You don't need decimal. It works fine with binary floating point. The reason they don't call it robu
by recursive 6y ago
Floating point numbers aren't special data types either.
You don't need decimal. It works fine with binary floating point. The reason they don't call it robust is that it requires re-balancing, but so does your proposal.
- spiffytech 6y agofloat/double data types have a hard requirement of periodic rebalancing to support unbounded repositions. Lexicographical sorting does not require rebalancing ever, though it may be performed as an optional storage/bandwidth optimization. That is a very meaningful distinction in my book.