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Quote from: psxphill;806278
Floating point on the other hand cannot represent decimal currency at all. It is impossible to store most 2 digit decimal numbers accurately in a floating point number. .

I will admit that I do not seem to have the deep knowledge you have on this subject, but this statement confuses me ?
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