Olivier wrote:
> I think that precision when dealing with money is very important (more
important than speed). Money values should be handled internally as an
string of decimal digits, as in COBOL.
> Very big numbers are frequent when you deal with money : $1,000,000,000
converted to a weakest currency can have 5 or 6 significant digits. They is
other problems when calculating in base 2 instead of base 10 : the numbers
that have an infinite number of digit after the point are not the same. It
has an impact on rounded values.

I agree with this. REBOL should have a money class/value that handles these
problems better, rather than using floating point base 2 arithmetic.

Andrew Martin
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