The entire premise of that article was based on the example of "engineers" trying to port COBOL code to Java and using floats for maths of financial transaction

The entire premise of that article was based on the example of "engineers" trying to port COBOL code to Java and using floats for maths of financial transactions. Yes, they can't say "just use BigDecimal" and still have enough content to be ranked well by Google, but that in fact is the solution to that particular problem.