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- Subject: Re: Currency representation in Lua
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 23:24:55 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo once stated:
> > Has someone any experience to share about implementing a system that deals
> > with currency values?
>
> Express your amount in cents, not dollars (or euros or reais).
> You can then use integers instead of floats.
> It works even in Lua versions before 5.3
Just a quick question---is there a smaller unit than the Euro? Or Reais?
While I can't complain about using cents over dollars [1], I think there
might be some issue with currency conversion.
-spc
[1] As a citizen of the United States