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By definition, currency uses fixed point arithmetic not floating point arithmetic.
by IncRnd 5y ago
By definition, currency uses fixed point arithmetic not floating point arithmetic.
- bidirectional 5y agoNot even remotely true. It is entirely context dependent. I've always used floats when working in finance.
- IncRnd 5y agoSome people say "goin der" instead of "going there", that doesn't change the definitions of words, just because people are lazy with their language.
- ExtraE 5y agoYour point in the floating-point discussion is true, but you’re wrong about this one- linguistics is a descriptive field, not a prescriptive one.
- bidirectional 5y agoI fail to see your point. Floats are best practice for many financial applications, where model error already eclipses floating point error and performance matters.