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David FOXWELL wrote:
intrinsic support for business types ? You just lost me ! But thanks.

Fixed point decimal for one.

I don't think core C has a such a concept. I'm pretty sure that the early versions of Java didn't have such a concept either. In fact, the support it currently has are not native implementations ... they are Objects (BigDecimal).

A float data type is inappropriate in most financial applications (unless you specifically need a float data type), as they can be inaccurate (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point_type#Accuracy_problems).

david


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