From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T07:42:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Float For Currency

On Dec 16, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Stephen Waits wrote:

> 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?

It doesn't use floating point arithmetic.  That means it is accurate,  
but slower.

James Edward Gray II