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

[Steve B. <sb...@sm...>]

J=F6rg,

I've searched the SF mailing list archives for the threads you
referenced a and I didn't find them. Can you post a link to one=20
of the messages in each thread?

Thanks,

Steve Bate
Smart Trade Technologies
Phone: +33 4 42 90 03 97
http://www.smart-trade.net/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: qui...@li...=20
> [mailto:qui...@li...] On=20
> Behalf Of Joerg Thoennes
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:41 PM
> To: Oren Miller
> Cc: Graham Miller; qui...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Quickfix-developers] [qfj] double and not BigDecimal?
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> QuickFIX Documentation:=20
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
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> Oren Miller wrote:
> > QuickFIX Documentation:=20
> > http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> > QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
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> > Did QuickFIX actually return this value to you or did you do some=20
> > calculations on it before seeing this price?
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> As a side note:
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> This issue has already been discussed a while ago; see the=20
> message threads:
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> * QF java interface: conversion from double fields to=20
> BigDecimal give imprecise results
> * price as double
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> For Java, a good default would be to use BigDecimal, but for=20
> C++ you would need a BCD lib.
> So using the underlying string directly is the safest way at=20
> the moment.
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> Cheers, J=F6rg
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> Joerg Thoennes
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