From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T03:25:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Rounding error, (100.0 * 9.95).to_i == 994

On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:52 pm, Charles Mills wrote:
| On Oct 28, 2004, at 9:12 AM, trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
| > How 'bout a good Money class ?
|
| IMHO a good Money class would be priceless :)
| There was an interesting article in Dr. Dobbs about a java money class
| a while back.  Below is the extract (registration required for full
| article).
| Anyway if you do a lot of monetary calculations using floating point
| you can get some pretty hefty round off error... as you guys have been
| discussing.
|
| -Charlie
|
| www.ddj.com/documents/ddj0405i/

Alas, I don't have that class of Money to subscribe :( ;)

T.