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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24332731
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Yeah I shudder when I see floats and currency.
Eh, if you use doubles and you add 0.000314 (just over 0.03 cents) to ten billion dollars you have an error of 1/10000 of a cent, and thats a deliberately perverse transaction. Its not ideal but its not the waiting disaster that using single precision is.
That sounds like an explosive duo