From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T08:12:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Float For Currency

Stephen Waits wrote:
> I'm asking why one would use BigDecimal, specifically, as opposed to the
> built-in Integer types?

One would use BigDecimal instead of Fixnum or Bignum when one is going
to do some operation that might produce a fraction.  If you're certain
your operations will always result in whole numbers, though, I don't see
 a point in dragging in BigDecimal.

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Neil Stevens - neil@hakubi.us

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