One of my lecturers mentioned a way they would get around this was to store all values as ints and then append a . two character before the final one.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this works especially well for currencies (effectively doing all calculations in cents/pennies), as you do need perfect precision throughout the calculations, but the final results gets rounded to two-digit-precision anyways.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 year ago

quite a horrible hack, most modern languages have decimal type that handles floating rounding. And if not, you should just use rounding functions to two digits with currency.