Just an FYI, often that is not correct. Many financial systems require fractional pennies due to the volume of transactions. Think about taxing stock exchanges.... the pennies add up quickly at any tax rate, so they use fractional pennies to reduce the size of the error bucket.
> On Jan 26, 2020, at 8:50 AM, Pat Farrell <pat22...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > never use floating point if you are trying to represent money, say dollars > and cents or decimal values of the euro. > Store the money as integer number of pennies. > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/cc852ce3-6f88-40fd-8b19-877c76deec10%40googlegroups.com. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/AF9827F5-C849-4F4E-8229-005D6C9A0E03%40ix.netcom.com.
