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>Then again, in hindsight, TS made a wise decision to thumb their
>nose at [double precision], betting that those who wined about it
>would make their own workarounds anyway, like linking with excel,
>etc. In turn, TS would have software that is faster, albeit, not
>quite accurate.
...which wasn't even a good excuse back in the late 1980s which
I understand was the TS4 era. Most computers then had math
coprocessors which were optimized for double precision math. In
some cases single precision would actually slow the operations
down because everything would get converted internally to double
precision.
The only possible excuse I can think of would have to do with the
fact that storage capacity was much smaller then (720K diskettes,
and a 30 megabyte hard disk was considered large). But it's still
not an excuse for TS because TS seems to store all its data in
integer format.
-A
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