Re: [Boost-users] RE: Boost thread problem

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-15 12:37:59

Sliwa, Przemyslaw (London) wrote:
> Thanks, 
> 
> Ben, what should I use for representing the money amounts? 
> A boolean :)) ?

If you're dealing with other people's money then there are regulations 
that specify the required intermediate precision and rounding rules, 
which may vary from place to place.  I believe you'll need to use 
fixed-point decimal fractions, perhaps implemented as integer counts of 
hundredths or ten-thousandths of a currency unit.  I've not done this 
myself so I don't know the details, but I'm fairly sure that getting 
this wrong can put you on the wrong side of the law.

Ben.