prePEP: Decimal data type

Ron Adam radam2 at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Nov 4 18:54:47 EST 2003


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:50:43 -0500, "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net>
wrote:

>Then they shouldn't use such a tiny precision; that's essentially IEEE
>single precision.  Default to a precision of, say, 100, and you can count
>the number of electrons in the universe exactly.  Since each penny contains
>at least one electron ... <wink>.


Since the Federal Reserve is moving to an all electronic system, it is
now possible for the amount of currency to exceed any and all
resources to represent money in a physical form. 

And so we can finally prove that we live in an inflated universe.


_Ron     ;-)






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