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Maxatar
35 days ago
What exactly do you think a floating point number is?
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lxgr
35 days ago
Usually that, but in binary, which causes lots of headaches for financial math.
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Maxatar
35 days ago
For those who don't understand what they're doing, yes. But those people end up having headaches and causing trouble no matter what.
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CyberDildonics
34 days ago
So all the people who write financial software and avoid floats don't know what they're doing? That's would end up being just about everyone. You should teach them, you know so much more than they do.
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