Dear Log,
Do all money math in cents. It avoids surprises from roundoff errors.
I thought that, too...
schwern on 2004-09-05T02:54:46
...until you have to calculate tax, interest or anything else involving percentages. Then you're back at 1**2.
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bignum.pm is an interesting way out, if you can afford the speed hit, except that strings used as numbers are not bignums. Sounds unlikely until you realize that everything returned from DBI is a string (at least with DBD::mysql).
