Hi,
yes, looks like too much :)
I would go with the float representation... for the conversion, I do not have
an experience or opinion about performance or db footprint.
You have to check that in the old empirical fashion way :)
Esteban
On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Sabine Knöfel <sabine.knoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in your opinion.
> I use FixedDecimal for computing currency amounts.
> This works fine.
>
> When storing the amounts with voyage into mongo (I have a lot of them!!!),
> normally, one currency amount would be stored into mongo as follows:
>
> "vatAmountEUR": {
> "#instanceOf": "FixedDecimal",
> "negative": false,
> "number": NumberInt(90280),
> "part1": NumberInt(9),
> "part2": NumberInt(280),
> "scale": NumberInt(4)
> }
>
> I think, this is a lot of stuff for one single value. I tend to convert the
> FixedDecimal into a Float for storing it. In this case, it would be like
> this:
>
> "vatAmountEUR": 0.7196
>
> When loading, I immediately re-convert it into a FixedDecimal. I would do NO
> computing with the float(!!).
>
> What is your opinion about this (rounding issues, performance, database size
> etc.)?
> Do you think, there is something against it? What would you do?
>
> Sabine
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