RE: [Webappsec] Corsaire whitepaper: Breaking the Bank (Vulnerabilities in Numeric Processing within Financial Applications)

From: Martin O'Neal <martin.oneal_at_corsaire.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:46:05 +0100

> you don't ever need to round, and
> can use relatively simple fixed-
> precision for this sort of thing.

Sometimes. Some financial calculations, such as exchange rates etc, are
inherently floats.

Martin...

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