Re: Proposal for ISSUE-12, string literals

On May 13, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Andy Seaborne wrote:

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> On 13/05/11 14:09, Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> From: Steve Harris<steve.harris@garlik.com>
>> Subject: Re: Proposal for ISSUE-12, string literals
>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 07:07:36 -0500
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>>> Hesitant -1 to, there are numbers that xsd:double for e.g. can
>>> represent, that xsd:decimal doesn't promise to.
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>> Huh?
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>> Did someone change the laws of arithmetic while I wasn't looking?
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> xsd:double are IEEE 754-1985 and includes NaN, signed zeros, INF, -INF
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> xsd:decimal does not, but can express numbers xsd:double can't because XSD double is 64 bit, fixed format with 52 bits of fractional part.

So, Peter, the answer to your question is, Yes.

Pat

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> 	Andy
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>>> - Steve
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>> peter
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