fudge() is good. I will add it as an alias. I couldn't think of anything better at the time. might_be() looks_like() probably() possibly() neaten() all seemed...well a little wishy washy.

You are of course right about the psychological tendency. That's why the marketers love $9.99 etc because it just seems less than a 10 spot. Still don't get much useful change though.

Do you know if there is anything in Perl that implements the standards. A Math::AcurateFloatingPoint class would be quite possible using Math::BigInt without too much work. You just need to delta to integers for the operations and then return the result as a float object (stringified of course to preserve accuracy). I don't know if there would be much demand though.

The stats about > 50% of database table numerical columns using floats (including financials) was interesting.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re^3: Fix floats like you do in your head by tachyon
in thread Fix floats like you do in your head by tachyon

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