We certainly cannot use it for money, for example. Most shops I know of have fancy decimal libraries they never get to use because an unsigned long unit of centicents is simpler, predictable and easy to encode and assume client software will have the same rounding strategy.
We certainly cannot use it for money, for example. Most shops I know of have fancy decimal libraries they never get to use because an unsigned long unit of centicents is simpler, predictable and easy to encode and assume client software will have the same rounding strategy.