Comment 34 for bug 707923

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Sharoon Thomas http://openlabs.co.in (sharoonthomas) wrote : Re: [6.0 and 5] invoice tax - rounding issue

Hmmm... This discussion/debate of use of float never seems to end ???

If you need more references:

Why the Tryton (http://tryton.org a fork of OpenERP) decided to use decimals: https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-expert-accounting/msg00070.html

Why Fabien/OpenERP SA considers Float as the solution: https://lists.launchpad.net/openerp-expert-accounting/msg00067.html

The solution IMHO is to use Decimals which avoids all the nonsense of rounding (of course at the cost of performance, which could be improved 12x by use of cDecimal http://<email address hidden>/msg01347.html).

Quoting one of my friends in the OpenERP community "We have uml designer, view designer, report desinger, fancy dashboards but can't do a single sum(debit) :)"