ib-ruby/ib-ruby — Issue #6: Discuss the BigDecimal vs Floating Point issue
Author: ricpruss
Created: 2011-12-27 20:41:19+00:00
State: open

Folks seem to be having a discussion in the code. Entering this issue so we could have a thread on the topic.
From socket.rb
"
# Floating-point numbers shouldn't be used to store money...
# ...but BigDecimals are too unwieldy to use in this case... maybe later
"