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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
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Subject: Re: macros vs HOFs (was: O'Caml)
Date: 14 Sep 2002 01:37:25 +0000
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* Erann Gat
| Why would you ever need to multiply monetary quantities?

  Units, dude.  Units.  Just /add/ two numbers with different denominators,
  and you get into this problem right away.  Granted, you can make do with
  400th of a cent, but then you need to get into the whole least common
  denominator game, and you should have used rationals to begin with.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
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