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lxgryesterday at 2:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Big decimals are widely available and don’t require any expertise but avoid many of the footguns of implied decimal integers.


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m00xyesterday at 8:06 PM

BigDecimal should be used by almost everyone except for HFT since they're really slow.

Maxataryesterday at 8:05 PM

Imagine advising someone who explicitly said they work in HFT to use big decimals.