Re: text2interval again, was Another thought Re:..

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-03-06 17:03:37 -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
>  The value I expect for 0.1 is  in hex, 3DCCCCCD for 32 bits
> and in 64 bits,
> 3FB999999999999A

No, what is important is that the string provided to text2interval
is regarded as an interval, not as a pair of numbers (xinf,xsup),
where deserialization would be applied to each of these number,
since the deserialization of a number is just a fixed conversion
from a string to a number while one also needs here a context: a
rounding mode. And that's why text2interval is necessary.

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