Numeric data question

[Terry Reedy]

"James J. Besemer" <jb at cascade-sys.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1027627251.9009.python-list at python.org...
>
> Terry Reedy wrote:
> > If the amounts of money you are dealing with are well less than
the
> > max, and if you are only doing + and - (accounting in the strict
> > sense) and maybe * by int amounts,
>
> Accounting per se cannot be limited to the above operations.

Account: "to furnish a reckoning of money received and paid out" says
my Websters New World Dict.  If this is all one wants or needs a
program to do, then it is sufficient.

> Think of tax tables, withholding percentages, asset depreciation,
interest
> calculations, etc., etc.

I did, which is why I wrote

>>  Financial calcs with interest and other rates requires more care.

Calculations of amounts to seek or pay are not the same as actual
flows themselves

Terry J. Reedy