On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 09:27:43PM +0100, Simon Slavin wrote: > Financial software frequently handles all currency amounts as pence or > cents for the reasons you've just found out.
Most financial processing is done on mainframes which have had fixed point decimal types (in hardware) since the early 1960s. If you use the right types this problem doesn't happen and about the only thing you have to think of is rounding properly (for which there is some amount of software support). But yeah, if you don't have a fixed decimal type and you try to use floats for money you're gonna get sued eventually. Don't do that... /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
