perl / ifram / javascript question

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 14 19:50:06 UTC 2007


On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:44:45AM -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>    Or store monetary values as tenths of a cent, for even higher
>    accuracy. It reduces the available range, but is that likely to be
>    a problem?

Only if you are working with the budget or a large company or some
country (32bit certainly isn't even enough to store the dollar part of a
lot of countries budgets, and many companies too for that matter).  64
bit should be fine of course.

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