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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I shudder when I see floats and currency.

[–] Womble 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Eh, if you use doubles and you add 0.000314 (just over 0.03 cents) to ten billion dollars you have an error of 1/10000 of a cent, and thats a deliberately perverse transaction. Its not ideal but its not the waiting disaster that using single precision is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That sounds like an explosive duo