On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 07:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Manlio Perillo <manlio.peri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What happens if you need to divide 7 pennies by 4? I do not know about pennies peculiarities, so I'll stay with ¤ ;) I divide 70000µ¤ by 4 then It gives 17500µ¤. On customer account it still is 17500µ¤ but on his statement it prints 0.018¤ (using 5/4 rounding rules). The -500µ¤ goes to wherever local accounting law imposes on me. Surely with pennies I'd do same thing ;) > For financial applications you should use decimal floating-point numbers. And soon see pink slip. Or even go to jail. > Manlio > -- Wojciech S. Czarnecki << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
