Re: Money Class?

[Dirk Verbeeck]

Scale depends on the currency. For example Euro is displayed with 2 
decimals but internal calculations should be done with 4 decimals.

If you are doing a lot of divisions/multiplications then you better 
don't limit the intermediate results or the rounding errors will kill 
the correctness of the result.

I also recommend creating your own Money Class with a bigdecimal 
inside. Then you can add method to read/write the value with the 
correct number of decimal digits.

-- Dirk
Lukas Bradley wrote:

   I always use BigDecimal for money, and convert to required formats
when viewing. Otherwise, if you need to deal with other currencies, you
might run into trouble.

Do you limit (scale) your BigDecimal to 2 places?  If so, which 
constructor do you use?

Thanks for the reply.

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