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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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On 2011-03-14, Yannick Duch�ne <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:17:49 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  
><rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a �crit:
>> and sentences like "Welcome to the world of scaling".
> Did not understood
>

For example, if you needed to implement code which handled values to (say)
3 decimal places, you could just multiply the value by 1000 and treat it
as a integer internally.

Ie: 123.456 becomes 123456 and 345.45 becomes 345450.

Simon.

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