In article <DZbr6.17917$Qb7.3117518 at newsb.telia.net>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>costas at springmail.com wrote:
>> I will also tell my customers that this is the new math.
>
>if you don't understand how floating point numbers work, you
>probably shouldn't use them in customer projects.
Fredrik is right. Using floating point numbers requires that
you know what you're doing. They are _not_ exact. If your
customers are expecting exact results and you're using floating
point numbers, then you did a bad thing.
People should have to pass a test before they're allowed to use
floating point numbers. 1/2 ;)
Do _not_ use floating point numbers for currency. Use integers
or fixed point BCD. Use floating point numbers to represent
quantities that vary continuously and are not known exactly:
the temperature outside, the length of a piece of string, etc.
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