On Feb 25, 2:04 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Try doing numerical integration sometime with rationals, and tell me > > how that works out. Try calculating compound interest and storing > > results for 1000 customers every month, and compare the size of your > > database before and after. > > Usually you would round to the nearest penny before storing in the > database.
I throw it out there as a hypothetical, not as a real world example. "This is why we don't (usually) use rationals for accounting." Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
