Re: arbitrary base floating point class?

From: helmut.zeisel_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-09-26 10:27:22

--- In boost_at_y..., "Damien Fisher" <dfisher_at_u...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I work in a company which processes data from the local stock
> exchange.  A problem we are running into is that the exchange
> places an upper limit on the number of significant figures in
> prices disseminated (10), but the decimal point can float.

Do I understand correctly that your prices are, say USD,
and the frational part is just cents?

If this is the case,
will it suffice to make the computations in cent
and use an arbitrary precision integer class?

Helmut