Which is exactly what github.com/robaho/fixed and many others do! > On Jan 26, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Michael Jones <michael.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ...thus the virtue of scaled integers. scaling by 100 makes cents whole, > scaling by 10000*100 gives four decimal places beyond that. There is nothing > bad about floating point despite the reputation, it's just not the number > system from algebra; nor is binary floating point the same as decimal > floating point. The problems all start with false presumptions. > >> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 8:20 AM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> 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. > > > -- > Michael T. Jones > michael.jo...@gmail.com
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