diff --git a/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview.adoc b/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview.adoc index 7a750c40a..9d4b3886f 100644 --- a/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview.adoc +++ b/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/overview.adoc @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ The use case for Decimal Floating Point numbers is where rounding errors are sig In applications where integer or fixed-point arithmetic are used to combat this issue, Decimal Floating Point numbers can provide a significantly greater range of values. For example, while a fixed-point representation that allocates eight decimal digits and two decimal places can represent the numbers 123456.78, 8765.43, 123.00, and so on, a floating-point representation with eight decimal digits could also represent 1.2345678, 1234567.8, 0.000012345678, 12345678000000000, and so on. +Software development needs Decimal Floating Point numbers in several cases. For example, `for (double doub = 1.1; doub != 1.5; doub += 0.1) { cout << doub; }` never ends. + == Supported Compilers Boost.Decimal is tested natively on Ubuntu (x86_64, s390x, and aarch64), macOS (x86_64, and Apple Silicon),