From: Stephen Waits <steve@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T07:39:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Float For Currency

mathew wrote:
> Use BigDecimal for currency. I've just finished some new Rdoc 
> documentation for it which will hopefully be added to ruby-doc.org and 
> the 1.9 release, and can forward you a copy if you like.

Hi mathew,

Excuse my ignorance, but I'm wondering what BigDecimal does different 
than the built-in integer types?

Thanks,
Steve