Is it still related to the initial bug in the code? Thanks Sami -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of remi.chateauneu@gmx.de Sent: 17 April 2005 17:29 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] RE: Boost thread problem Ben Hutchings wrote:

If you're dealing with other people's money then there are regulations

that specify the required intermediate precision and rounding rules, which may vary from place to place.

For market risk, the amounts are very high and somewhat 'virtual', because what is evaluated is a probability of gain/loss, and therefore some imprecision is acceptable. When it is about 'real' money, imprecision is unavoidable (...change rates...), but what helps is the small number of operations (couple of additions / multiplications) in each separate transaction. When other types of financial operations implies many numbers, regulations may enforce to have specific accounts storing rounding errors (differences between the actual and expected results): Although there are rounding errors, nothing 'disappeared' from the bank's books. _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ --------------------------------------------------------