I am writing an invoicing script, and find myself with fractions of cents that in Excel are formatted to currency values. This creates blatent aritmetic errors as the display value and the actual value are different.

I am looking to use BigInt to round my values to 2 decimal places. Can I use BigInt to do this, or would I have to use BigFloat?

The documentation for BigInt states that I can set precision to -2 for the class for all my number objects, would this be the best approach?
amt.

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2006-07-05 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'Using Math::BigInt'

In reply to Dealing with rounding errors (Using Math::BigInt) by amt

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