Victor Ng wrote: > If you're dealing with money at all - you absolutely cannot use float, > you *must* use fixed decimal types or you risk getting into all kinds > of really terrible rounding errors.
that might be true for the US deficit, but for more normal money amounts, that's not really true at all. > I'm frankly surprised that a scientific computing app is using float > with any degree of success. that's probably because they're scientists, and have a pretty good understanding of basic math (unlike the recent c.l.python poster who basically claimed that if someone pays you $5.999999999999999 for a $6.00 product, you've lost a full dollar ;-) </F> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
