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I’ve built two different payment platforms in the past, I’m curious why floating point is the correct and only choice for financial modeling.
by revicon 7y ago
I’ve built two different payment platforms in the past, I’m curious why floating point is the correct and only choice for financial modeling.
- unlinked_dll 7y agoQuantization error is irrelevant in modelling so far as the datatype has the appropriate dynamic range. You don't care about the rounding errors, you care about the speed of execution of your model and how able it is to find trends/behaviors. Exact values aren't useful.