Posted by Philip Ronan on 12/05/05 21:41

"Andy Hassall" wrote:

> You appear to be working with monetary values from the names in your original
> post. You shouldn't use floating point numbers for money; use integers,
> multiplied up to the minor currency. So £1.50 = 150.

There might be a good reason for using floats. For example, all your sales
tax calculations will be rounded down if you use integers.

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