Re: Rakudo test miscellanea

2008-06-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis 
* Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-26 20:20]:
 On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:31 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Most financial institutions don't use float, rational or
  fixed point, they just keep integer pennies.
 
 I'm not so sure about that. There are lots of financial
 transactions that deal in sub-$0.01 fractions: taxes, currency
 conversion, brokerage stuff...

They use decimal fixed point math where necessary.

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Re: Rakudo test miscellanea

2008-06-28 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis 
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-29 02:05]:
 [repeat of statements made days ago]

Sorry, I was only just catching up and didn’t notice this orphan
subthread had siblings, where the point was already covered.

Regards,
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