From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-07-30T17:02:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18786] Re: Numbers classes.. Rational number? [was: Ruby as opposed to Python?]

Kent Dahl <kentda@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

> Kero van Gelder wrote:
> > 1 Dutch guilder is wordt 2.20something Euro.
> > 
> > that's a float :)

Except it's not. All of the various Euroland currencies <-> Euro are
defined with fixed precision. ISTR that calculations must be done to
5dp, but then rounded back to 2dp.

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Piers Cawley