"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Probably, the important meaningful cases are ones that have small > exponents (HOPEFULLY less than 25) used in interest calculations. No, even in interest calculation floating point arithmetic is perfectly fine. You do your floating point arithmetic to calculate the factor to use when multiplying your fixed precision exact dollar amounts. You then store the result again in exact form and do your account balancing in fixed precision arithmetic to be sure you don't lose a penny here or there. In fact the exponent can be much larger than 25 (think of monthly compounded 25 year mortgages, or worse, daily compounded savings accounts). But in those cases the base will be very close to 1. There's really no use case for NUMERIC^NUMERIC except in the case of an integral power which is useful for number theory and cryptography. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
