On 8/19/11 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
By the way, you know that you should never, ever use floats for currency, right?
That's just incorrect. You shouldn't use (binary) floats for many *accounting* purposes, but for many financial/econometric analyses, floats are de rigeur and work much better than decimals (either floating or fixed point). If you are collecting gigs of stock prices, you are much more likely to be doing the latter than the former.
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