Currency formatting in Python
I am looking to format a number like 188518982.18 to £188,518,982.18 using Python. How can I do this? 15 Answers 15
I am looking to format a number like 188518982.18 to £188,518,982.18 using Python. How can I do this? 15 Answers 15
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question I’m using a decimal column to store money values on a database, and today I was wondering what precision and … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question What data type should you use for money in Java? 11 Answers 11
I want to store many records in a MySQL database. All of them contains money values. But I don’t know how many digits will be inserted for each one. Which data type do I have to use for this purpose? VARCHAR or INT (or other numeric data types)? 12 Answers 12
I’m working on a very basic shopping cart system. I have a table items that has a column price of type integer. I’m having trouble displaying the price value in my views for prices that include both Euros and cents. Am I missing something obvious as far as handling currency in the Rails framework is … Read more
What is the best data type to use for money in C#? 9 s 9 As it is described at decimal as: The decimal keyword indicates a 128-bit data type. Compared to floating-point types, the decimal type has more precision and a smaller range, which makes it appropriate for financial and monetary calculations. You can … Read more
This question already has answers here: When should I use double instead of decimal? (12 answers) Closed 8 years ago. I keep seeing people using doubles in C#. I know I read somewhere that doubles sometimes lose precision. My question is when should a use a double and when should I use a decimal type? … Read more
I’ve always been told never to represent money with double or float types, and this time I pose the question to you: why? I’m sure there is a very good reason, I simply do not know what it is. 16 s 16 Because floats and doubles cannot accurately represent the base 10 multiples that we … Read more
I would like to format a price in JavaScript. I’d like a function which takes a float as an argument and returns a string formatted like this: “$ 2,500.00” What’s the best way to do this? 6 69
I doubt it. The problem is that 100 is never 100 if it’s a float, it’s normally 99.9999999999 or 100.0000001 or something like that. If you do want to format it that way, you have to define an epsilon, that is, a maximum distance from an integer number, and use integer formatting if the difference … Read more