> jonwood wrote: > I've done very little programming related to currency (dollars, > etc.) and I'm wondering if I need to worry about rounding errors. > Since SQLite doesn't appear to have a currency type, I had planned > on using REAL instead. But I have a lot of reports to print out and > I could see rounding errors with REAL.
That's a very real possibility. I'll second your idea, and Dennis' recommendation, to use an integer type for this (unless you are using a compiler that has a scaled integer or dedicated currency type). In addition, you might consider storing at least one more digit than pennies, to keep your fractional pennies, if you need to do that. I once had a system where I was required to keep thousandths of pennies, and we used this method. The vast majority of numbers had no fractional pennies, so $10.00 looked like 1000000, but that's the way it had to be. Brad _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
