3 ms·

It's not correct, but in many cases it's plenty accurate

• jsjohnst 7y ago
  If you are dealing with other people’s money, the only accurate is accurate. Close enough should not be in any financial engineer’s mindset, imho.
  • recursive 7y ago
    In this case, it's both. Decimal floating point types do not lose precision with base-10 numbers, unless using trig, square roots, arbitrary division and the like.
    • jsjohnst 7y ago
      > arbitrary division Like commonly happens doing financial calculations, especially doing interest calculations.