The Crisis with Remailers

[Perry E. Metzger]

Matts Kallioniemi writes:
> At 17:44 1996-05-21 +0200, bryce at 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