From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T16:33:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Major Addition Bug? (We have a winner!)

* Michael Geary <Mike@DeleteThis.Geary.com> [0500 01:00]:
> > Michael Geary <Mike@DeleteThis.Geary.com> wrote:
> > > Financial calculations aren't done in floating point. There
> > > are various number formats that are used, but they all boil
> > > down to some form of integer arithmetic. For example,
> > > fixed point decimal may be used, where the value $625.91
> > > is represented as the integer 62591 with a scaling factor of
> > > two decimal places. In other words, the arithmetic is
> > > actually done in pennies, not dollars.
> 
> Phil Tomson wrote:
> > This seems to be the 100,000th post to Ruby-talk (at least
> > the English version).
> 
> Cool! And it was my *first* post to the group.
> 
> This Must Mean Something.

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