What about rounding? Do you round all values after every operation? How do you do that?
I mean, if there is 10 dollars to be evenly split between three people, one of them must receive $3.3334, and two others must receive $3.3333 (all banks I know of work with 1/100 of a cent). Otherwise money will not add up, and manager will be mad. If you're working with integers, it comes almost naturally because you know a priori you can't really divide evenly. But with floats it could be a different story. On Friday, May 24, 2013 10:41:49 PM UTC+4, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > Which is okay for most use cases but not, say, when you are processing > monetary transactions. > > This is somewhat of a myth. People are afraid of floating point numbers > because they are somehow "imprecise". In fact, up to around 50 bits they > are as precise as integers. I've used them for money many times. It is as > simple as keeping the units in pennies. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
