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

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