>The currency type allows for huge monetary amounts, but only requires a width of 8 which I guess mean only requires 8 bytes.
Yes, the width is measured in bytes.
Currency is the most efficient storage for certain kinds of data. I use it not only for "money", but also, for instance, for stock quantities, if I think I will not need more than 4 decimals.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
