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Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money
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this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2025
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Mostly standardized? Maybe. What I know is that float summation is not associative, which means that things that are supposed to be equal (x + y + z = y + z + x) are not necessarily that for floats.