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Re: bizarre number transformation [message #31658 is a reply to message #31489]

Fri, 26 July 2002 10:33

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Marshall Perrin (mperrin+news@arkham.berkeley.edu) writes:

> My gut instinct is that most financial software out there probably uses
> either doubles or BCD. Roundoff errors could easily become a major
> financial problem if you're Visa.

For the hundreds of thousands of financial transactions
I process every day for my book, I find it advantageous
to round one way if I'm collecting and another way if I'm
billing.

Cheers,

David

P.S. Let's just say we decided on the deluxe meal
plan for the genius as he heads off to college. :-)

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