* Keith C. Ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 14:48]:
Math won't work, because floats aren't exact.
Actually, that is a point I meant to make somewhere in this
thread.
When you're dealing with money, it's better to use cents (or
tenths or hundredths of cents) as a unit, rather than dollars.
You
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:49:52AM +0200, Pense, Joachim wrote:
A. Pagaltzis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you're dealing with money, it's better to use cents (or
tenths or hundredths of cents) as a unit, rather than dollars.
You can then use integer math. This gets you around all
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
But then you still have the issue of marking the difference between 257
cents and 257.0 cents.
Of course. But that's much better than marking the difference between
2.57
dollars and 2.56984013 dollars, wouldn't you agree?
I don't think it is the
