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by Cshelton 3715 days ago
I just did some ownership percentage stuff where it's not uncommon to go 16 decimal places out...working with JavaScript on this was a pain. Never thought I'd care about that .00000000000001 difference hah...
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floating point works best near 0, most of the numbers it can represent lie near 0 (negative exponent is a number less than 1).