Hey
The stackoverflow answer is fine but the libs provided may not be as
node friendly as
https://github.com/iriscouch/bigdecimal.js
Peace
Anton
On Friday, July 13, 2012 4:09:29 PM UTC+1, Jeff Barczewski wrote:
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> If you want to get around the rounding errors with javascript
If you want to get around the rounding errors with javascript then you need
to work in cents (or even hundreths of a cent for more accuracy).
So basically multiply your currency like dollars by 100 to get it into
cents, do your calculations, then finally, divide by 100 or simply sprintf
to dis
Hi Eysenck,
You may not want to use Node.js (or any javascript vm) for this, due to the
inherent issues
javascript has dealing with fractional numbers, for instance, take the classic
expression:
"0.3 - 0.2 != 0.1"
However, as this is a financial application, you'd probably be storing
When you have highly structured data with high levels of interdependence,
such as lots of numbers that all depend upon one another - i.e bank
accounts - you use SQL.
When you have fairly unstructured, loose data that is fairly independent,
such as content - i.e you are building a blog or another
When it comes to finance, SQL comes out on top - things like MySQL have been
battle tested for decades, accounts information is intrinsicly relational so
relational databases are the right fit, ACID compliance with nosql is more
liberal but with your project you'd need 100% reliability.
Also t
Hi, I'm a bit new here, I have in mind to make a real-time application on
that involve money and bank accounts, and was thinking of using Node.js +
Express + Now.js any SQL database or NoSQL, the problem I have no
information on how safe or good is Node in this field, any of you have used
Node.
