From: "Joseph L. Moll" <jmoll@acquion.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 03:13:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Floating Point and Financial Software
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960603141003.006ebeb4@mail.acquion.com>
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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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Joseph L. (Joe) Moll -- Network and Communications Engineering
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ACQUION, Inc.  Greenville, SC  USA -- Specialists in Electronic Commerce
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