RE: general conversions of floats to intervals
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> From: stds-1788@xxxxxxxx [mailto:stds-1788@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Michel Hack
>> Kreinovich, Vladik wrote:
>> Yes, I meant conversion of strings to intervals, because a floating
>> point 1.5 and 1.50 is the same, so this has to be done with strings.
> Decimal FP does distinguish those two; one has quantum 1e-1 and the
> other has quantum 1e-2, and this is preserved in the encoding.
Thanks for the info.
> So the
> only issue would be what a naked "1.5" should imply.
On this, I agree it should be exact number.