Does steel scheme support precision math? Can it? #146
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I imagine that standalone steel scheme programs could be written for finance. For example, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Decimal provides precision for up to 255 decimal places. I used it in my financial program. Raku has built-in number types that can handle precision math. Some helix scripts may also want some financial calculations.... I don't know... |
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Steel supports big integers, so I would presume yes it can support precision math |
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Big integers don't come with decimal places...... I was expecting something like https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Decimal or something else that supports more decimal places... Someone can build something like Decimal on top of big integers, but it doesn't exist, yet. I would say that arbitrary-precision decimal numbers and limited-precision decimal numbers can be added later. |
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Sorry, what I'm saying is that big int support is all that is really necessary to build the support if you really wanted it |
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Sorry, what I'm saying is that big int support is all that is really necessary to build the support if you really wanted it