<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Shelby Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shelby.martin@gmail.com" target="_blank">shelby.martin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you for your replies. I suspect the solution is a bit more advanced than where I'm at now, which is chapter 2 of a beginner's book.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Probably because talking about the gory details would completely derail the conversation, as I did. :P My apologies.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"> Not sure why the author chose to use examples using money calculations when other calculations that don't need rounding would have sufficed. I will have to revisit this issue when I'm further along. </div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it's fine to do it when you're learning the language. Just be aware of it, and you should be ok.</div><div><br></div><div>Related: I saw a picture the other day on Google+ of an mailing envelope whose zip code was written in scientific notation. By computer, of course. Wish I could find it again... Knowing the appropriate representations for data is something you'll pick up as you learn a programming language.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div></div></div></div>