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by ivanbakel
2034 days ago
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That's certainly true. The rationals (of which BigDecimal cannot represent the whole space) are a 0-measure part of the reals. I would not claim that BigDecimal is an exact representation, which is a fact that should be clear to anyone that tries to calculate 2 * PI in arbitrary-precision finite decimals. Even not considering irrational numbers, BigDecimal cannot handle 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1 correctly. It might be fair to claim that floats are more inexact - certainly moreso than Rational, but probably moreso than BigDecimal for the numbers that programmers tend to care about. |
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