NODE 4eaa08d8Re: Floating Point and Financial Software
"Joseph L. Moll" <jmoll@acquion.com>Tue, 4 Jun 1996 03:13:36 +0800
I have seen monetary items represented as integers, with the software
assuming that the last two digits are actually the "cents" part of the
float. There are still round off problems with this scheme, but the
calculations are much faster since they are integers.
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