On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > gnc_numeric gnc_numeric_add(gnc_numeric a, gnc_numeric b,
> > gint64 denom, gnc_numeric_round_t how);
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > The problem is that the calls to do simple things like "add"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> You will probably not need any 'if' statements because you KNOW that
> the numbers came from the same source and must, therefore, be in the
> same currency.
It's easy to pick at someone else's proposal when you yourself don't
have an explicit proposal. Every time I
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Most book keeping is done within a currency and this will be
> > dramatically faster.
>
> Nope. Using the integer representation, you'll need one `if' statement
> to determine that you're dealing with two numbers of the same
I'm reading through some of your old e-mails. Thought I'd make some
comments...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> The only case I could forsee this would be if one could buy 1/3 of something
> or if prices were quoted as 1/3 of a dollar (or other currency unit).
So, one use for using rationals would
