scaled decimal

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Wed Sep 8 21:57:31 UTC 1999


Mark Schwenk announced one several months ago. Here is the email to the
list.

-- Dwight

"Mark A. Schwenk" wrote:
>
>  Fellow Squeakers,
>
>  I have a preliminary implementation of ScaledDecimal support for 
>Squeak. It has
>  little documentation and only minor testing so far. But if you have 
>a use for it
>  now, try it and send me your feedback.
>
>  >From the ScaledDecimal class comment:
>
>  I represent fixed-point decimal numbers accurately with no limit to 
>the number
>  of digits before or after the decimal point.
>
>  The implementation is based on Fractions with an added scale.
>
>  See ScaledDecimal class>>example1 for examples of use.
>
>  You can obtain a changeset for the latest version here:
>
>          ftp://ftp.wellthot.com/pub/squeak/goodies/ScaledDecimal/
>
>  Enjoy!
>
>  -Mark Schwenk
>   WellThot Inc.


>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Shane Hayes [mailto:sphayes at ibm.net]
>  Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:09 PM
>  To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>  Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @cs.uiuc.edu
>  Subject: scaled decimal
>
>
>  Hi.
>
>  First I would like to thank the contributors to Squeek. It has been
>  quite interesting lurking around on this news group
>  and I appreciate your efforts.
>
>  Has anyone implemented "ScaledDecimal" in Squeek? I have looked around
>  on the Swiki, but could not find anything.
>  I thought there was something in 2.4, but I can't find it in 2.5.
>
>  TIA,
>  Shane Hayes
>
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