Best way to store currency values in C++

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Don’t store it just as cents, since you’ll accumulate errors when multiplying for taxes and interest pretty quickly. At the very least, keep an extra two significant digits: $12.45 would be stored as 124,500. If you keep it in a signed 32 bit integer, you’ll have $200,000 to work with (positive or negative). If you need bigger numbers or more precision, a signed 64 bit integer will likely give you all the space you’ll need for a long time.

It might be of some help to wrap this value in a class, to give you one place for creating these values, doing arithmetic on them, and formatting them for display. This would also give you a central place to carry around which currency it being stored (USD, CAD, EURO, etc).

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