Robert Kern wrote:That's just incorrect. You shouldn't use (binary) floats for many *accounting* purposes, but for many financial/econometric analyses, floats are de rigeur and work much better than decimals
There's a certain accounting package I work with that *does* use floats -- binary ones -- for accounting purposes, and somehow manages to get away with it. Not something I would recommend trying at home, though. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
