atreadw1492 / yahoo_fin

Scrape stock price history from new (Spring 2017) Yahoo Finance layout
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Potential floating point round off error propagation #8

Open gnunez opened 4 years ago

gnunez commented 4 years ago

I've noticed that the stock prices are represented internally as numpy.float64. Representing currency as floating points has known issues and can lead to round off error accumulation over a series of operations. Any plans to address this issue in the future?