Re: sorry .09 instead of .08

James Westby wrote:

The problem is that you can't use floating point arithmetic (doubles) to do precise arithmetic. If possible then you should try using fixed point arithmetic. e.g. 

It's probably better to use BigDecimal in most situations.

Tom Hawtin
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