reproducible, & possibly configurable rounding

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Jim Garrison wrote at 11:36 (EDT) on Thursday:
> I am still confused as to what the other ways of handling (or rather,
> avoiding) rounding might be.  Can we not assume that any given
> commodity/currency is traded in some minimum fractional unit?

The problem there is that many currencies are on different scales, so
you need a lot of decimal places in the division/multiplication to
get accurate results.  Then, there's a rounding issue at the end
when you print things out.

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   -- bkuhn