On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:10 AM, David Turner <dct25-561bs@mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
it's not normally useful to be able to represent things smaller than £0.01 (or whatever the smallest unit of your local currency is)

Currency conversion was specifically mentioned, and from what I have seen the convention there is to go to tenths of the local smallest unit of currency. Going to the smallest unit itself in the presence of currency conversions is problematic.


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