Replacement for the shelve module?
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Aug 20 20:37:34 EDT 2011
> Robert Kern wrote:
>
>>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
There's a certain accounting package I work with that *does*
use floats -- binary ones -- for accounting purposes, and
somehow manages to get away with it. Not something I would
recommend trying at home, though.
--
Greg
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