At 3:10 PM -0800 1/26/02, Shankar Unni wrote: >Of course, in the interests of fairness, I should note that typical doubles >(64-bit IEEE) have about 15 digits of accuracy, which are generally enough, >as long as you never exceed 10**13 dollars (i.e. no US govt budget work >:-)). You only have to worry about precise rounding with doubles.
As I mentioned, I am only selling t-shirts, none of which exceed $30 USm quantity 2 perhaps. Do I really need to use centi-cents in this case or will the "cents" value do (I do plan to use an integer)? -- Michael __ ||| Michael Collins ||| ||| Kuwago Web Services ||| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ||| Seattle, WA, USA ||| http://www.lassodev.com [database,sql,query,table] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
