17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Matts Kallioniemi writes:
At 17:44 1996-05-21 +0200, bryce@digicash.com wrote:
Matts, you don't want to do floating point for money, because floating point doesn't give you good control of precision.
Yes I do. Several major currency traders in Sweden keep all their money in 64 bit floating point storage.
I have trouble believing you. None of the forex accounting I know of in the U.S. is done in floating point. It simply isn't accurate enough. It is true enough that *rates* can be stored as floats if you want, but never actual sums. Perry