Re: [HACKERS] IEEE 754

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От Jan Wieck
Тема Re: [HACKERS] IEEE 754
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Msg-id 4002D588.4030503@Yahoo.com
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Ответ на Re: [HACKERS] IEEE 754  (Sai Hertz And Control Systems <sank89@sancharnet.in>)
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Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote:

> Dear Jan Wieck  ,
>
>>>
>>> Yes I agree with you Jan , most of the time we round the amount  and
>>> this is done by  truncating greater than 3 decimal digits and
>>> rounding the 3 digit to 2  in other words :
>>> select trunc(1000.236897,3);
>>> then
>>> selecr round(1000.236,2);
>>> This takes care of the rounding factor in money as per Indian
>>> standards ok, how will you verify it simple just use log and you will
>>> get the correct output.
>>
>>
>> People are often under the impression that effective APR's and all
>> that stuff fall into the same category as your bank or credit card
>> account balance. But that is not true.
>
> What are you suggesting thattruncing and  rounding is not good  in
> financial terms

If that is what Indian accounting rules require, that is what you do.


Jan

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