Re: fractional cents

Ronald J Kimball <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:56:23 -0400

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:49:52AM +0200, Pense, Joachim wrote:
> A. Pagaltzis [mailto:[email protected]] wrote:
> 
> > When you're dealing with money, it's better to use cents (or
> > tenths or hundredths of cents) as a unit, rather than dollars.
> > You can then use integer math. This gets you around all the
> > problems with a base-2 representation of base-10 fractions,
> > something you don't want to have to deal with when money is on
> > the line..
> 
> But then you still have the issue of marking the difference between 257
> cents and 257.0 cents.

Of course.  But that's much better than marking the difference between 2.57
dollars and 2.56999999999999984013 dollars, wouldn't you agree?

Ronald