Hi Alex, On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:17:06 +0000 Alex Brelsfoard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nevermind... Sorry... Turned out to be a JS problem actually.... parseInt > vs parseFloat.... > > Ugh. > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Alex Brelsfoard > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am working on a custom shopping basket, and using Template to multiple > > the quantity of each item by its base price, and then also summing it. > > But I'm losing the floating points. It's coming out as flat INTs. > > > > Any idea of how to fix this? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > --Alex > > > I'm glad you got your problem sorted out, but note that you should note use the built-in floating-point arithmetics for currency. See: * https://metacpan.org/release/Math-Currency * http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html - “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic”. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Humanity" - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity <Botje> Khisanth =~ s/must sleep/must give Botje all my money/ . — Freenode’s #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
