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[-] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

They are as incapable of handling one third of a dollar as binary positional notation is incapable of handling one fifth (0.2).

It’s not really a float problem. It’s a positional notation one. Some perfectly rational numbers refuse to squeeze into that mold.

[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Also decimal system is not exatcly that much better since you also cant write 1/3 in decimal

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