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by e12e 2341 days ago
> I think asking about correctness is a straw man. The issue is really about safety, predictability, and controllability.

Uh, and compliance? (if you didn't mean to imply that under "controllability")

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Yeah, definitely. My list certainly isn’t exhaustive; just trying to express that use of floating point isn’t only a matter of correctness, there are lots of other factors. The dev time cost of using floats correctly for financial calculations is higher than the dev time cost of using ints or fixed point numbers.