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1996-05-23 - Re: The Crisis with Remailers

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From: R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl
To: perry@piermont.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-05-23 02:57:40 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 10:57:40 +0800

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From: R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 10:57:40 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: The Crisis with Remailers
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> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:04:04 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
> 
> Floating point systems are built to do approximate math on a very wide
> range of number sizes. Accounting systems require exact math -- down
> to the cent. Floats aren't suitable.

I completely agree.  But are the usual fixed-point representations
adequate for exchange rates, where it's not a matter of "down to the
cent" but of ratios of cents and centimes?  Is an exact representation
of rationals (e.g., pairs of integers) needed?

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