[gmpi] Re: Decision Time: 8.3

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:12:32PM -0600, Mike Berry wrote:
> > Devils' advocate: round or use floor() or something faster (for x86 there is
> > a fast cast lib that works well) .  If you use floats to represent ints, you
> > don't need to be exact.
> 
>       If we eliminate ints as a possible data type, as suggested, then 
> everyone has no choice but to use floats and incur the problems they entail.

What problems?

-- 
Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use,
suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books.  Cause and effect,
or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?


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