2009/3/9 Noah Slater <[email protected]>: > My company produce price feeds using decimals, and we need those decimals to > be > decimals. For that reason, and after much messing about and research, I > decided > that we should use strings for all non-int numerical values. I would be > supportive of a canonicalisation format that followed this rationale.
I've had good results using a scheme where decimals are made up of pairs of ints, the first representing a coefficient and the second a power of 10. Basically calculator e notation, but with an integer instead of a float, adjusted accordingly. -- Kerr
