[TAG] Paul Sephton's article "A Question Of Rounding"

[Karl-Heinz Herrmann]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:47:02 -0500
Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:

> I think we'd lose a little precision in _expressing_ things, though...

just use very long long long ints and think in units of 10^-12 of whatever
physical or currency unit you use....

I very hazily believe to recall that was the way of COBOL which was
explicitly written for use in finance software.

It's the TeX way anyway :-)


K.-H.