[Discuss] Financial database / balance?

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 20:05:14 EST 2012


On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:04 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> 
> If you are doing proper accounting, be careful of double precision
> floating point errors.

Ooh, yeah.  I forgot about those.

Daniel, you'll want to use binary-coded decimal (BCD) rather than floats so as to avoid FP rounding errors.

--Rich P.




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