;t have to worry about rounding errors. (unless you're recording
truly enormous sums of money...)
-JF
> -Original Message-
> From: gerald_clark [mailto:gerald_clark@;suppliersystems.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: Jan Steinman
> Cc: [EMAIL PROT
Oh, for BCD floating point.
My first computer with a language (SWTP 6800) had BCD math.
It had something like 6 byte mantissa and a 1 byte exponent.
That would give 11 digits with e +-99
Maybe we should have BCD data types.
Jan Steinman wrote:
From: "Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kenne
>From: "Michael T. Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Kenneth Hylton wrote something about SQL or QUERYs:
>>I NEVER use float or double to store values like you appear to be doing...
>FWIW, all of our financial database software stores values in either pennies or
>tenths of a cent, not dollars, to avoi
Kenneth Hylton wrote something about SQL or QUERYs:
I NEVER use float or double to store values like you appear to be doing. I
always used DECIMAL so that they are stored as strings and you do not have
problems associated with what you see here. I then have complete control
over what is stored
