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From: johnson@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Fixed Point (Decimal) Arithmetic Re
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Date: 18 Jul 88 15:57:00 GMT
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I would think that Rationals would be the best choice for business
accounting.  They have infinite precision.  You would probably
have to write some special methods for printing, but I can't see
what else you would need.  Arithmetic on Rationals is probably
not very fast, but that is probably not important.