Proposal for Decimal64 and Decimal128 value-based classes

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Wed Mar 31 02:12:32 UTC 2021


They'll find a natural home in JDBC, since SQL has a native decimal type.

On 3/30/2021 7:05 PM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:
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> As far as I can tell, scientific computation will make use of binary 
> floating point numbers for a long time. Decimal floating point numbers 
> are still limited to biz and fin applications. 



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