& XSLT On 3/7/07, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@[...].com>  wrote:
>  Cool, yes -- if one can live with the limited precision.

whether we like it our not there is always an implicit upper limit to
precision....either imposed by underlying operatings system resources,
etc

I refer you to the various recent articles on 'binary sort' to show
how a piece of code could be used for 20-30 years and still have bugs
because of an assumption on precision of underlying systems.

This opened my eyes to actively looking at my code for where it might
have a problem 5-10 years down the line.

cheers, Jim Fuller
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