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Message Posted: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 @ 19:49:18 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: Decimal or time in PI |
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| From: | | Dieter Nöth |
Kumaran Anantaraman wrote:
| | Is it 'bad' to have a decimal in PI? Why? Should we make it integer instead? | |
No, because a decimal is stored as an integer (1,2,4 or 8 bytes). I.e. dec(15,4) is stored as 8 byte INTEGER: value * 10000
| | Also, there was a discussion on 'time is bad for PI'? True? What was the reason? | |
Because you need the exact value to be able to use the PI and you probably don't know the exact time up to the
second/millisecond.
Dieter
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