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Re: The Crisis with Remailers
> Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 15:04:04 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
>
> Floating point systems are built to do approximate math on a very wide
> range of number sizes. Accounting systems require exact math -- down
> to the cent. Floats aren't suitable.
I completely agree. But are the usual fixed-point representations
adequate for exchange rates, where it's not a matter of "down to the
cent" but of ratios of cents and centimes? Is an exact representation
of rationals (e.g., pairs of integers) needed?