Aug. 1, 2001
8:11 a.m.
[Guido]
.... I was toying with a *different* idea, more appropriate perhaps for accountants, that guarantees exact results for decimal numbers, giving decimal results when possible, rational otherwise.
My experience with accountants (~5 yrs in another life) is that they're perfectly happy with fixed point decimal. They may make you do things to the 1/100 of a penny & then round in funny ways that favor their bosses, but they want every calculation to come out the same as on their calculator. - Gordon