At 03:55 AM 1/18/2004, David Garamond wrote:

>I've read that US banks are required by the government to keep balances
>up to 5 decimal digits, is that correct?

Beats me.

>Also, if we display balances with 2 (or 3/4/5) decimal digits, does it
>mandate that we store them too as 2 (or 3/4/5)?

If you display them with 2 and store them with 0, you may have
a problem. As long as you store at least as much precision as
you intend to use, you may display it any way you like. That's
a question of your interface tools.

Regards,

Ann