Problem Statement

Show how to represent currency in a simple example, using a data type that represent exact values of dollars and cents.

The IEEE 754 binary floating point representations of numbers like   2.86   and   .0765   are not exact. For this example, data will be two items with prices in dollars and cents, a quantity for each, and a tax rate. Use the values:

(That number of hamburgers is a 4 with 15 zeros after it.   The number is contrived to exclude naïve task solutions using 64 bit floating point types.)
Compute and output (show results on this page):

The tax value must be computed by rounding to the nearest whole cent and this exact value must be added to the total price before tax.
The output must show dollars and cents with a decimal point. The three results displayed should be:

Dollar signs and thousands separators are optional.

Let's start with the solution:

Digits := 50;
tax := .0765;

burgersquantity := 4000000000000000;
burgersprice := 5.50;
burgerscost := burgersquantity * burgersprice;

milkshakesquantity := 2;
milkshakesprice := 2.86;
milkshakescost := milkshakesquantity * milkshakesprice;

total := burgerscost + milkshakescost;
printf("%.2f\n",total);

totaltax := total * tax;
printf("%.2f\n",totaltax);

totalprice := totaltax + total;
printf("%.2f\n",totalprice);