>From: "Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Kenneth Hylton wrote something about SQL or QUERYs:
>>I NEVER use float or double to store values like you appear to be doing...
>FWIW, all of our financial database software stores values in either pennies or 
>tenths of a cent, not dollars, to avoid decimals altogether.

FLOAT + money = lawsuit :-)

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