fixed only supports 8 decimals places - fixed. Without digging into the algorithm I’m sure that is the source of your issue.
> On Feb 1, 2020, at 4:03 PM, craterm...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Perhaps I'm doing something wrong or using the library outside of its > intended purpose, but I found that this library doesn't handle Muller's > Recurrence correctly. For those not familiar, Muller's Recurrence is 108 - > (815-1500/z)/y > > https://play.golang.org/p/sePTgjZzHeY > > See https://latkin.org/blog/2014/11/22/mullers-recurrence-roundoff-gone-wrong/ > >> On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 8:46:16 AM UTC-8, Robert Engels wrote: >> Which is exactly what github.com/robaho/fixed and many others do! >> >>>> On Jan 26, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Michael Jones <michae...@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 <ren...@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 <pat2...@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 golan...@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 golan...@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 >>> michae...@gmail.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/46cadc14-9c8e-4c3a-9c6b-d0af7b621061%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/F99914BF-7D69-4CEF-9C00-B583615B44AD%40ix.netcom.com.
