[REBOL] Re: Type inconsistency in Arithmetic Functions
From: carl:cybercraft at: 11-Aug-2007 21:47
On Saturday, 11-August-2007 at 11:24:41 Gabriele Santilli wrote,
>2007/8/11, Peter Wood <pwawood-gmail.com>:
>
>> Does anybody know if this is by design or is simply a consequence of
>> the current implementation?
>
>I guess it would just be much slower to do otherwise.
Could it be that the results are more likely to be really huge and so can only be handled
by decimals?
>> 1000000 * 1000000
** Math Error: Math or number overflow
** Near: 1000000 * 1000000
>> 1000000.1 * 1000000.1
== 1000000200000.01
And that's just with multiplication...
