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by Maxatar 35 days ago
What exactly do you think a floating point number is?
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Usually that, but in binary, which causes lots of headaches for financial math.
For those who don't understand what they're doing, yes. But those people end up having headaches and causing trouble no matter what.
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.