Robert Kern wrote: > On 8/19/11 3:36 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> By the way, you know that you should never, ever use floats for currency, >> right? > > That's just incorrect. You shouldn't use (binary) floats for many > *accounting* purposes, but for many financial/econometric analyses, floats > are de rigeur and work much better than decimals (either floating or fixed > point). If you are collecting gigs of stock prices, you are much more > likely to be doing the latter than the former.
That makes sense, and I stand corrected. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
