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Programming@programming.dev · 1 month ago

Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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Programming@programming.dev · 1 month ago

Most people dealing with money in software hit the same annoying problem: the need to store and compute money values that were exact…

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Indeed, but there’s no need to shit on people using floats because in almost all cases they are fine too.
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  Where the heck did I “shit on people using floats”?

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