[Tutor] How to correct decimal addition.

[Alan Gauld]

On 25/01/14 21:19, Keith Winston wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:57 AM, spir <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Note: AFAIK most financial software use integers for this reason and to
>> avoid (or control) rounding errors.
>
> I don't think this is true

I can't speak for the general case but the only major financial app I've 
worked on (a mainframe billing system in COBOL) was done in pennies. It 
was a major rewrite of a legacy system  for the
"Millenium Bug". (It used the year 00 as a special case for
terminated accounts!! Amongst other foibles)...

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