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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:31:34 +0100
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From: barney@redmagic.org.uk (Barney Laurance)

On 2024-04-08 12:17, Arvids Godjuks wrote:

> Why not have decimal be represented as 2 64-bit ints at the engine 
> level

Just to clarify this point, what's the formula to convert back and 
forth between a decimal and two integers? Are you thinking like 
scientific notation: decimal = coefficient * 10^exponent.

64 bits for the exponent seems excessive, and it might be nice to have 
more for the coefficient but maybe that doesn't matter too much.