A programming problem for Data Types

code_lover · #1 (**permalink**) April 19th, 2008, 04:52 AM

In banking transactions, we have enormously large amounts of money being withdrawn, deposited and transferred.
The questions is what we will do when we have an amount that needs to be stored in a variable but the data types does not provide the adequate range for storage.
Lets say that programming language (e.g. C, C++, C#, Cobol, Java, etc.) does not provide the required range, how we will resolve the issue!

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ciderpunx · #2 (**permalink**) May 13th, 2008, 06:42 AM

You'd write something analogous to the Java BigDecimal class. Even better you'd /use/ the Big Decimal class and not reinvent the wheel ;)

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/...igDecimal.html

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