Re: Support for decimal type

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 18:14:04 +0100, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>  
wrote:

>> I was making a banking app, and realised that there is insufficient  
>> support for using the decimal type.
>>
>> On summing a series of amounts I was getting values like 136.6000000345,
>
> If you deal with xs:decimal throughout, you shouldn't get that kind of  
> results in the first place unless you do divisions, assuming the source  
> data is good.
On what authority do you claim that?

I can't find a anything that says decimal addition must be done exactly.  
Can you provide a reference?

Thanks.

Steven