17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Matts Kallioniemi writes:
What do you think will happen if you have a one italian lira coin and you try to deposit it with Mark Twain's USD account? With integer math it won't be pretty.
Fixed point math is not ugly. It is the only way to go if you are representing currency and thus cannot afford loss of precisions -- and isn't particularly onerous to use. Perry