Re: [Quickfix-developers] [qfj] double and not BigDecimal?

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

Did QuickFIX actually return this value to you or did you do some 
calculations on it before seeing this price?

--oren

Graham Miller wrote:

> Why was the decision made to use doubles instead of BigDecimals when 
> representing decimal data like prices?  (I guess maybe this was 
> something inherited from the old Java wrapper, but then the same can 
> be asked about the Javfa wrapper). It seems like the BigDecimal exact 
> representations would suit the application better, as dealing with 
> rounding problems associated with doubles can be a pain.  Of course 
> arithmetic expressions are more straightforward using doubles in Java, 
> but you can always get around that by converting to doubles before 
> doing any calculations.  Sitting here next to a stock ticker, I just 
> saw that Ford is down .07000000000001 cents today.  That's what I'm 
> talking about.  Thoughts?
>
> graham
>