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0 pointsjsjohnst6y ago0 comments

If you are dealing with other people’s money, the only accurate is accurate. Close enough should not be in any financial engineer’s mindset, imho.

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recursive6y ago· 1 in thread

In this case, it's both. Decimal floating point types do not lose precision with base-10 numbers, unless using trig, square roots, arbitrary division and the like.

jsjohnstOP6y ago

> arbitrary division

Like commonly happens doing financial calculations, especially doing interest calculations.

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