For accounting, why not just use scaled integers? Isn't there a limit to many many digits you want after the period? BTW, I think BCD is outmoded. Seems it's ge

For accounting, why not just use scaled integers? Isn't there a limit to many many digits you want after the period? BTW, I think BCD is outmoded. Seems it's getting replace by DPD which has far less overhead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#Higher-density_encodings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal#Higher-den...).