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bear scripsit:
> First, there is the well-known problematic property of binary-mantissa
> and binary-exponent representation that no decimal fraction can be
> exactly represented. This is of course is shared with virtually all
> languages except those (Ada I think, and maybe COBOL) which insist on
> exact decimal fractions in their spec.
The Rexx family (including Object Rexx and NetRexx) also insist on exact
decimal fractions. Java provides exact decimal fractions in a library,
but there is no syntax for them, so coercions from int, float, or string
constants must be performed at run time. COBOL provides exact decimal
fractions and allows machine-specific floats and ints as common extensions.
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