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Maxataryesterday at 7:56 PM1 replyview on HN

There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4 and it saddens me when this topic comes up and people go to such extreme lengths to recreate a second hand buggy reimplementation of a subset of floating point numbers to do it.


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worikyesterday at 11:01 PM

> There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4

Not across all architectures and operating systems there are not

Listen to those who have done this. Use integers for finance.

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