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by telegato 2539 days ago
To be fair in Javascript 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 also is false :). Not saying that Javascript is a great programming language.
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PaulHoule 2539 days ago
It's a problem in all mainstream programming languages that Excel has a strange answer to.

The trouble with it is that it is a big distraction to the "non-professional programmer" who uses tools like Excel.

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thfuran 2539 days ago
Yeah, that's the case for anything using IEEE 754 floating points.
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