From: mental@...
Date: 2005-12-13T09:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Float For Currency

Quoting Hunter's Lists <lists@lastonepicked.com>:

> Howdy,
>
> I have some methods that manipulate floats that represent a
> currency amount.
>
> I often end up with more precision than I need, i.e.: $9.756.
>
> What is the best way to scale that to 9.76?

If you're doing anything that matters, don't use floats for
currency.  There are a lot of really nasty subtle issues that will
lose money between the cracks.

Usually you want a specialized currency type which uses
fixed-precision arithmetic.

-mental