Re: GMP Project

[Kevin Ryde]

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> I have been looking high and low for an open sourced/GPL'd
> DECIMAL arithmetic library. I did find a few commercial ones,
> but none for decimal floating point yet.

Alas I'm not aware of any either.

> Your GMP project
> comes close, providing binary floating point support. However,
> commercial software often requires decimal arithmetic to avoid
> "off by a penny" errors etc.
>
> Consequently, I would like to suggest that the GMP project
> group support this functionality in the future. Unfortunately,
> I have nothing to offer in way of support -- only the suggestion.

I guess something like that could come out looking pretty similar to
gmp, but it'd probably be very different internally.

Depending whether efficiency is a big concern it might be possible to
make use of an mpz_t plus base 10 exponenent.