& XSLT http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html

is a good link

ta, Jim Fuller

On 3/7/07, James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@[...].com>  wrote:
>  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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