Mark, In continuing with my last email. 1.00 would be stored as 100 in an int.
-Richard At 03:52 PM 4/30/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Mark, >To store decimal numbers or any currency for that matter as ints, you >store the values as the smallest unit of currency. For dollars, this is >0.01 or a cent. You then can avoid any round off errors when doing >multiplication or division. > >Regards, > >Richard > >At 06:15 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>I'd be interested in how you can use ints for decimal numbers. The "right" >>way is to use BIG_DECIMAL, but I have to use the session bean method given >>me for my bean data. But this still does not address the issue of the >><bean:write> behavior. >> >>Mark >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Micael Padraig Og mac Grene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:00 PM >> >>First Principle of Economics: ever use float or double for money. Use >>ints. Or, for serious money, longs. 'The real problem is not the "output" >>but the whole idea. >> >>micael >> >>At 05:56 PM 4/30/02 -0400, you wrote: >> >I'm using a simple <bean:write name="phone" property="price" /> which grabs >> >a float price from the form bean. The display, however, is unpredictable. >> >For a price of 25.00, e.g., can get returns of "25.00," "25.0" and "25." >> >Anybody else experiencing this behavior? I've had to wrap the <bean:write> >> >with JavaScript to get the formatting correct. >> > >> >Mark >> >"De recta non tolerandum sunt." >> > >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>For additional commands, e-mail: >><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
