Dismissing it as "better for accountants" feels trivializes the problem. There's billions of lines of code in circulation dealing with fixed-decimal currency f

Dismissing it as "better for accountants" feels trivializes the problem. There's billions of lines of code in circulation dealing with fixed-decimal currency formats. The choices have always been: * Scale things up and down (do your math in cents and convert back to dollars at the last minute), which is an easy opportunity for off-by-2-orders-of-magnitude bugs * Use floating points and pray nobody notices the all but guaranteed errors * Use something like BCD and have to explain it to everyone * Deal with some custom format or language-specific type, kissing portability goodbye, and depending on implementation, possibly poor performance A well-established decimal-friendly type, whether this, decimal128, or something else, provides a go-to solution to a very common problem.