alt Hacker NewsThere are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4 and it saddens me when this topic comes up and people go to such extreme lengths to recreate a second hand buggy reimplementation of a subset of floating point numbers to do it.
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FabHK • last Sunday at 3:16 PM
What are those pretty trivial ways? And how are they better than storing 10 cents + 20 cents = 30 cents?
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> There are pretty trivial ways to use binary floating point values that don't result in 0.1 + 0.2 producing 0.30000...4
Not across all architectures and operating systems there are not
Listen to those who have done this. Use integers for finance.