Money units

Hernan Wilkinson hernan.wilkinson at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 19:03:58 UTC 2007


We use Aconcagua as the base measure model for our financial applications.

Hernan.

On 11/6/07, Ignacio Vivona <altobarba at gmail.com> wrote:
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> look at Aconcagua in squeaksource
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> On 11/6/07, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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> > On 6-Nov-07, at 8:31 AM, Sebastian Sastre wrote:
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> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > >     has anybody tried to use the Units package from squeak map for
> > > monetary values?
> > >
> > >     I'm trying this Units package and the Avi Bryant's Money package
> > > I've found in squeaksource
> > >
> > >     any general tips for dealing with currencies?
> > It's a particularly tricky problem since the relative values change
> > frequently, rapidly and chaotically; honestly I would prefer to claim
> > that money is not really a Unit in any meaningful way. Units are
> > really defined values with defined relationships to other derived and
> > founding units. Currency is a medium of exchange with variable ratios.
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > MIPS:  Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed.
> >
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