The author links to an article about how Excel does all its computations in 64-bit floating point, in a way that seems to bolster their point. The actual title

The author links to an article about how Excel does all its computations in 64-bit floating point, in a way that seems to bolster their point. The actual title of that article? “Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results in Excel” (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/floating-point-arithmetic-inaccurate-result https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/f...). How coincidental that this should show up on the front page at the same time as the thread on normalization of deviance in software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22144330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22144330 What is wrong with using a currency library?