Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!sunstorm!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers. Message-ID: <2929@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 91 19:44:47 GMT References: <14964@smoke.brl.mil> <101@tdatirv.UUCP> <2855@charon.cwi.nl> <14993@smoke.brl.mil> <3322@unisoft.UUCP> <1991Jan29.173341.11899@zoo.toronto.edu> <1700@bbxsda.UUCP> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 11 In <1700@bbxsda.UUCP> scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) writes: >The designers didn't necessarily understand business arithmetic. On the contrary, my opinion is that businesspeople don't understand arithmetic. Life for all of us would be so much simpler if all business calculations assumed some reasonable fuzz value and stopped worrying about lost or gained pennies. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi