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Re:Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract e... by rjtobin on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:06PM (#22927191)
Might be stored as an int in cents (or whatever the tick size is).
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Re:Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract e... by typon on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:33PM (#22930949)
That's what I would do. Would never trust floating point numbers with something as important as currency.
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