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Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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Programming@programming.dev · 2 months ago

Most people dealing with money in software hit the same annoying problem: the need to store and compute money values that were exact…

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The real standard is whatever Katherine in accounting got out of the Excel nightmare sheets they reconcile against.

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