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Not even remotely true. It is entirely context dependent. I've always used floats when working in finance.
by bidirectional 5y ago
Not 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.