Bug in Decimal??

[Gregory Ewing]

pleasedontspam at isp.com wrote:
> I compared the results with wolfram Alpha, and
> also with an open source arbitrary precision calculator, which matches Alpha
> results.

Decimal is *not* an arbitrary precision data type, so you
can't expect exact results from it. You can set the precision
to be very large, but it's still essentially a floating point
type, and as such you can expect the last few digits to
depend heavily on the details of the algorithm used.

-- 
Greg