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 the > > problems with a base-2 representation of base-10 fractions, > > something you don't want to have to deal with when money is on > > the line.. > > 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 2.56999999999999984013 dollars, wouldn't you agree? Ronald
