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Tor:

An even better way to represent currency is with two integers.  One
for the left side of the decimal and one for the right side of the
decimal.  This lets you handle presicion at the level you need.  It
also lets you access the full range of int for whole number values. 
Not as much a problem in Java as it was in C, I'll admit.

(Sorry, escaped business app programmer.) <g>

-Rich

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> 
> "Kerry Helmer" <khelmer@parlorcity.com> writes:
> 
> >This returns 0.9899999999999949 instead of .99  Can someone help explain to
> >me what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> You're not, but the IEEE floating point standard has problems
> expressing some numbers.
> 
> > Does anybody have some rules to follow that would help me when performing
> > math operations?
> 
> Use integers for currency. (that is, represent e.g. $1.69 with the
> number 169).

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