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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:19:15 +0100
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Subject: Re: decimal and builtin _sum function
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Yes, I know this is not couchdb stuff. What confused to me was to store
numbers as  strings.


2013/11/15 Robert Newson <rnewson@apache.org>

> Ah, sure. If you're using floating point to store (or compute on)
> money values you've committed a sin (I used to work in accounting
> software, this is the one thing you do not do, besides looking for a
> job not involving accounting software).
>
> We've had a few threads on number handling in the past and it gets
> complicated. Javascript really only has 64-bit floating point numbers
> in practice. Our JSON encoder/decoder will retain the precision of
> your input values but does not guarantee it will preserve the
> representation.
>
> If I were writing accounting software with CouchDB, I would be storing
> my money values as an object of three strings like
> {"amount":"200","dp":"2","currency":"USD"}, which represents $2. I
> would then perform all calculations in custom code, not being prepared
> to trust the various oddnesses of Javascript.
>
> Read https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1410 for more fun.
>
> B.
>
>
> On 15 November 2013 11:55, Pedro Narciso Garc=C3=ADa Revington
> <p.revington@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I'm dealing with money but also with micro decrements (cost per
> > impression on ads).
> > So my decrements are going to be like 0.000123.
> > I think what I'm going to do is to sum them before push them into couch=
db
> > so I do not need to deal with decimals.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/11/15 Mike Marino <mmarino@gmail.com>
> >
> >> > To answer the original question, _sum can only sum numbers, it does
> >> > not understand numbers inside strings.
> >> >
> >>
> >> The way I understood the OP's question was that he had correctly,
> >> following the error message, converted to using numbers instead of
> >> strings, but then didn't understand the obtained result.
> >>
> >>
> >> >> sidenote: super cool talk by Bartek Szopka about floating point
> numbers
> >> in
> >> >> JavaScript (and other languages) held at JSConf.eu 2013
> >> >>
> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMqHDDtVYJRI
> >>
> >> This is interesting, nice.  I come from a background where numerical
> >> precision and memory layout is often a concern (e.g. physics
> >> simulations, hardware readout), but these types of things I think can
> >> be more easily forgotten when using higher level languages like
> >> javascript, python, etc.  Imo it's still an essential understanding to
> >> have.
> >>
>

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