On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, John Kopanas wrote:

> I have a number that is of type float.  I want to format it as dollars
> and cents.  How do you recommend I do it? :-)

never, never, never use floats to represent money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic


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