Re: 0.3-0.2=0.0999999999998?

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00

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Pyropunk <pyropunk@usa.net> writes:

> Unfortunately, some of us have to read MONEY vars out of a DB.
> If the DB stures MONEY as floats

... the DB designer ought to go to jail. Currency should be stored as
integers of the smallest domination (so that e.g. � 1.00 is stored as
the number 100).

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