Specify precision

[tinybike]

Should be able to specify decimal precision -- use IEEE types? E.g. decimal128.

[ScottPJones]

This should probably be closed. It looks to me like Decimals is trying to be like Java's BigDecimal type (arbitrary precision decimal floating point numbers). If one wants to use the IEEE decimal floating point types, they are now supported (as of 2015) by DecFP.jl

[hurak]

Indeed, DecFP.jl is doing exactly that. As far as I understand the position of Decimals.jl, it aims at offering an arbitrary precision decimal floating point arithmetics in the style of Decimal package for Python. I also inserted some explanation of these (including links) to the README.md file. Hence I dare to close this.