The Crisis with Remailers
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed May 22 16:18:03 PDT 1996
bryce at digicash.com writes:
> > It is true enough that *rates* can be stored as floats if you want,
> > but never actual sums.
>
> That's interesting. Because rates never approach 2^23, and
> because you never need that much precision with rates? It seems
> like a bad idea to me anyway. Why not just use an Int32 if you
> don't need that much precision?
I only report the news. I have occassionally seen floats in rates, I
have never seen them used in accounting.
I will also note that rates do indeed get astonishingly precise --
five significant figures.
In any case, however, I have never seen accounts done as floats --
never.
.pm
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