Disclaimer: 30+ year veteran at fixing these fucking bugs. My opinion: just NO. MULTIPLE failures to understand the problem have occurred in this article, and

Disclaimer: 30+ year veteran at fixing these fucking bugs. My opinion: just NO. MULTIPLE failures to understand the problem have occurred in this article, and they deal with representation. A) It is never acceptable to 'round up' on interest payments/loans/debts/balances, without having an explicit line item for why. "Because compiler decision made by programmer" is indefensible. B) Representation is EVERYTHING. Case in point: >>>>0.1 + 0.2: Produces 0.30000000000000004 but should be exactly 0.3. This statement can kill. C) Standards are there to keep everyone, and everything, 'honest', and by honest it means: everyone understands things implicitly. Explain to grandma why a rounding error has resulted in her teeth falling out, or GTFO. D) Fixed point is a standard representation. Its not about the precision-fail, its about if everyone gets exactly the same results, every time, in doing the math. E) Lots and lots of these bugs yet to be fixed.