On Dec 25, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: >> Nope, MySQL has a decimal data type. > > Excellent, I'll have a play :)
You may want to give it extra precision, depending on how you'll be using it. I have mine at 8,3 to avoid losing an occasional penny during interest calculations, though for some (most?) applications it's better to allow that to happen. In mine if I have a block of accounts totaling, say, $100,000, it should produce a certain amount of interest. But in calculating each account individually it most likely won't come out to the expected amount unless I can have fractions of pennies. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
