On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:20:51PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > We must be able to handle a large range of values precisely, ranging from
> > $0.01 to $20,000,000,000,000.00 or more.
>
> For what it's worth this isn't a large range, it's within the range that a
> normal double can represent precisely. In fact a double could represent
> 45,035,996,273,704.96 without scaling.
Also remember that "normal" foreign currency quantities can vary from
US$ by orders of magnitude. 1 US$ is about:
100 Japanense Yen
2000 Italian Lira
8000 Indonesian Rupiah
25000 Ecuadoran Sucre
612000 Turkish Lira
Gnucash shouldn't break in the event of hyperinflation...
-JT
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