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[Discuss] Financial database / balance?



On Jan 15, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> So, while the OP could certainly use canned BCD libraries or integers,
> using floats and doubles should work fine for most personal stuff.

Maybe.  I still think that the right way to do it is with arbitrary precision BCD, but that's probably my accounting courses talking.  Just don't get me started on double-entry bookkeeping. :)

--Rich P.





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