Re: Currency stored as cents

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I would rather use native data types and functions.  This is a good idea 
when you have to deal with the balance sheet of a corporation, where you 
have to handle huge numbers and still be precise up to the last cent.  For 
most retail business, where the largest amount can still be expressed in 
cents within the range of a 32 bit integer, the bcmath package is like 
overkill.

Satyam


"Jasper Bryant-Greene" <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:F6.D7.08900.4F566C24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Satyam wrote:
>> Now, am I missing something in all this?  Please comment.  Thanks
>>
>> Satyam
>
> Just use the Arbitrary Precision Mathematics functions in PHP, set to a 
> precision of 2 decimal places. There's bcmath[1] and GMP[2].
>
> Jasper
>
> [1] http://www.php.net/bc
> [2] http://www.php.net/gmp 

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