On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note: AFAIK most financial software use integers for this reason and to > avoid (or control) rounding errors.
I don't think this is true (no flame intended, hopefully you know I'm forever in your debt Denis): there's a famous scam where insiders at a major financial institution set the software so it always rounds down, and the difference was deposited in their account. It was a matter of fractions of pennies on a per-scam basis. I'm not certain if this ever actually happened (I thought it did, but Snopes seems agnostic). http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/salami.asp -- Keith _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
