Yar Hwee Boon wrote:

> Hi
>
> Storing floats, etc in GOODS, using Avi Bryant's client, numbers such 
> as  3.2 are returned as 3.199999809265137. Seems that GOODS stores 
> floats  using the IEEE 32 bit format. How do you work around it? I'm 
> storing money  one in currency only. Create a currency class, maybe? 
> Thanks.
>
I can't speak for the GOODS-related issues but I highly recommend if 
you're going to deal with Currency you develop a class (or classes) to 
support exact representations.  At the lowest level I store all 
currencies as integer-like things...this is the only solution that has 
stood the test of time for me.

David