Re: .98 cents instead of .99

On 30 Jan 2006 05:42:42 -0800, "Googmeister" <googmeister@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>Try (int) (Math.round(100 * (amountPaid - totalCost)))
>
>Or better use, store the amount as an int/long in pennies
>or use BigDecimal to avoid floating point precision issues.
for more discussion of the problem of currency calculation see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/currency.html
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