Re: 0.3-0.2=0.0999999999998?

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From: Pyropunk
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:00

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Unfortunately, some of us have to read MONEY vars out of a DB.
If the DB stures MONEY as floats, then you need to convert
from a float to an int. And casting (as most of us know) truncates
instead of rounding. This can cause some very strange behaviour.
All of a sudden (56732.00 * 100) = 5673199. 

Frans van Duinen wrote:
> 
> The answer is:  dont use float or doubles for money amounts.  Use an
> integer type (e.g. long or string) and carry no more decimal places than
> you show on output.
> 

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