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by Groxx 32 days ago
Yea, you're in a fairly special niche of programming if you're somewhere that truly matters, and you can't accept any valid order's output. In most general code, if that kind of precision matters, float is the wrong choice: use a bignum object and be exactly correct regardless of how you organized your code.

Which is a niche that exists, obviously. So it is absolutely true for some cases. But I would hope that any code that requires this is extremely clear about requiring it.