From: "Andreas S." <f@...>
Date: 2005-12-13T09:16:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Float For Currency

unknown wrote:
> 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.

BigDecimal is good.


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