Matt Frye wrote:
I haven't been much help at all. :-)
Actually, you have. Thanks for that ACM resource too. I haven't yet decided how to handle the currency issue in this new db, but I don't expect to be doing to much math beyond statistical analysis. This new project is mainly about donations and development for nonprofits.
Cool. If you're mainly going to be dealing with just summing columns of numbers, you won't have to worry much about the floating point stuff. You should still store and calculate things as integer numbers of cents ( amazingly you can get fp errors even doing just addition and subtraction), but otherwise you should be OK. Especially if the bean-counters can deal with the possibility that a report that displays an average, or something of that ilk, might be off by a penny every now and then.
TTYL,
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