On 20 Sep., 18:56, ted stockwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 20, 7:16 am, Philippe Marschall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > BigDecimal is the only sane choice for anything that includes monetary
> > calculations.
>
> True, but just because a number is saved as a long doesn't mean you
> can't do calculations using BigDecimal.
> I think the CPU cycles it takes to convert a long to a BigDecimal is
> trivial.
But long is crappy abstraction. Sometimes you need two decimal places,
sometimes three, sometimes six, sometimes "as many as there are".
That's all quite cumbersome to do with a long alone. String seems like
the easier way to go.
Cheers
Philippe
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