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A huge number of ecommerce sites do. (Such as almost every site based on ATG/Oracle Commerce)

Most banking systems predate standardized FP and use fixed decimal representations.

I can see them being used by the quants for fast pricing. But really, for accounting? Where do the missing cents go?

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