Re: denominating currency

[Richard Wackerbarth]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > Could you give a concrete example of this for the purposes of discussion?
>
> I buy peaches at 3/$1
...
> I buy apples at 3/$2
...

> Or, for a more GnuCash-ish example...
> I have a couple of outstanding student loans
...

Thanks, your description is certainly better than mine was.

And if you don't believe these are real problems, I encountered them some 
thirty years ago when I (actually my client) bought some 20,000 such loans 
for $139,000,000.00

Keeping those books REQUIRED both more than 32 bits precision and counting 
pennies on each individual transaction.



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