From: Samuel Lown <me@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T19:08:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Unexpected BigDecimal rounding issue


Rick Denatale wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Samuel Lown <me@samlown.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone offer an explanation?
> 
> BigDecimal is still a kind of float, albeit a decimal float rather
> than a binary float.
> 

Many thanks Nobuyoshi and Rick, that makes complete sense now.

I guess the safest rule of thumb is if you're doing comparisons for 
humans, use humanized numbers (i.e. integers :-)

Cheers, sam
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