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Brings up someone I read from an old crusty programmer, binary floating point is the wrong tool for most things. It's fine for scientific simulation work. But f
by Gibbon1 6y ago
Brings up someone I read from an old crusty programmer, binary floating point is the wrong tool for most things. It's fine for scientific simulation work. But for everything else it causes no end of problems.
- a1369209993 6y agoFloating point, binary or otherwise, is the wrong tool for many things. (Although (not-necessarily-scientific) simulation work is a very broad class of things.) If you're doing anything related to accounting, there is no excuse not to be using integers.