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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.
by 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 agoIn 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.