Is xsd : decimal safe to use in financial transactions?

• From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 01:15:16 +0200
• To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAKaEYhJZFES22iiDfDGOjHBqxBn=wmvw5xcmLgaAbE=gfou+Ww@mail.gmail.com>

I'm not 100% clear on this, but there's lots of articles around the
internet about the dangers of this e.g.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-double-or-float-to-represent-currency

Is it safe to use decimals in the commerce ontology?

https://web-payments.org/specs/source/vocabs/commerce.html#amount

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 23:15:44 UTC