Re: Reasonable to propose stability policy on numeric type = decimal

From: Martin J. Dürst (duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 20:48:56 CDT

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On 2010/07/28 0:36, John Dlugosz wrote:

> I can imagine supporting national representations for numbers for outputting reports,
> but I don't imagine anyone writing in a programming language would be compelled to
> type 四佰六十 instead of 560.

Well, indeed, I hope nobody would do that. 四佰六十 would be 460, and
560 would be 五佰六十 :-).

Regards, Martin.

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