On 11/30/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Basic currency conversion for Euro would require 5 decimal places of precision with no rounding involved: http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/y2keuro/docs/ep22-en.pdf Really, float isn't the answer for anything relating to money - normal or otherwise. vic --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
