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I think his point is that the OP got burned using floats for money. He thought the lesson was to use a custom class for money every time, but the actual lesson

I think his point is that the OP got burned using floats for money. He thought the lesson was to use a custom class for money every time, but the actual lesson could have just been to use integers instead.

dasil003 14y ago
Ah right, that makes sense.
tzs 14y ago
Actually, the point was don't blame your tools. If you understand how floating point works, you can deal with the rounding and truncation errors, and get accurate results for monetary calculations.