Modelling

Practical Money in Java

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Peter Steman

Introduction

While investigating Protobuf I shot from the hip and wrote that: to model money, one should use BigDecimal. That’s the conventional wisdom and it is correct - in a lot of cases. It’s fine when you deal with one single currency and you are most of all concerned with the precision of financial calculations. But what are some other options? let’s find out.

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