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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A lot of work has gone into making floating point numbers efficient and they cover 99% of use cases. In the rare case you really need perfect fractional accuracy, it's not that difficult to implement as a pair of integers.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 19 points 4 days ago

99.000004%