On 8/04/22 7:03 pm, Christopher Barker wrote:
Are you SURE your accounting software is doing the right thing? ;-)
Well, I've only ever seen precision problems manifest themselves once, and that was when I wrote a script that used repeated multiplications by 10 as part of a process to convert a number into words. I had to put some rounding steps into that to make it work properly. Other than that, if you were adding up about a billion monetary amounts in one go without any rounding, you might get a problem. I've never seen anyone do that, though. :-)
Also -- if it uses 64 bit floats, it'll have problems with trillions of dollars :-)
If your business is that big, you would not be using this particular accounting package! -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YCNNELCHQJYH5IXUIXH6CQFURNWNT5KE/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
