The Crisis with Remailers

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Wed May 22 17:48:28 PDT 1996



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






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