Re: inconsistent float behaviour
Re: inconsistent float behaviour
- Subject: Re: inconsistent float behaviour
- From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:11:28 -0400
I've not used it myself, but there is also NSDecimal that may be an alternative. Also, I recall seeing an IBM-released class that I believe had been part of ICU that also did decimal arithmetic using 32 or 64 bits.
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>On Oct 10, 2008, at 5:04 AM, Steven Hamilton wrote:
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>> Am I totally misunderstanding something about floats? Or is the
>> extra ##'s in the formatter making things up?
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>
>Floating point values of either float or double are not guaranteed to
>be super precise, and should never be used to represent currency
>values. Try using a long long instead, and have the first two digits
>represent a fractional unit of currency.
>
>Nick Zitzmann
><http://www.chronosnet.com/>
>
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