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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: Floating Decimal Package/Library?
Date: 16 Jul 2002 18:32:57 +0200
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tmoran@acm.org writes:
> >>When doing financial software, you become very interested
> >If the static requirement of Package decimal could be simply circumvented
> What kind of financial software needs more than 18 decimal digits?
> 18 digits allows 9,999 trillion dollars to one cent precision.
Accounting sofware to manage my personal bank account :)
Pascal.
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