> There's a train of thought amongst some folks that it's best > to store and calculate "money" amounts as integers, in terms of > cents, instead of floating point types in terms of dollars. > Ie, 1 dollar becomes '100' instead of '1.00'. The idea is to eliminate > the possiblity of rounding errors that can be introduced by conversions > to and from floating point types, and in floating point arithmetic > itself.
Good point. I guess I could handle the conversions client-side. MPF -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
