Python is DOOMED! Again!

[Steven D'Aprano]

BartC wrote:

> how do you represent a raise of 10% exactly if
> not with binary floating point?


In Python today, the best solution is probably to use Decimals:

from decimal import Decimal
raise = Decimal("0.1")


But the traditional solution is to track money in cents, or a fixed fraction
of a cent, using integers, and do everything in integer maths. That has the
disadvantage that division always truncates, but if you care about that you
can easily write your own division-with-round-to-nearest function.

Or use Decimal, which handles rounding correctly and flexibly.


-- 
Steven