Jason Rennie wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > Now, having stated that, it would be silly to allow entry of
> > fractions. Even the stock & commodity markets have dropped fractions
> > and gone to decimals.
>
> Would it be reasonable to have the user enter a decimal and round that
> number to the nearest fractional equivalent (i.e. 0.130 -> 0.125) if the
> "currency" is one that is traded in non-decimal fractions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> What do you round to if I trade in 1/9 AUD ? This number is recurring
> in both BCD and pure binary.
>
> Phill
User types in an approximation (0.111). Internal rational representation
rounds to the nearest representable number (1/9). Display is rounded to
3 digits (0.111).
Jason D Rennie www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/
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