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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by CJefferson on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:27AM (#12588480)
The floating point I think comes from C bias.

In C you kind of have to know the size of a double -- you'll call "sizeof(double)" fairly often, you'll notice the number in your code.

In most languages, you don't have a way of knowing the size of a double -- and furthermore the size a double takes in your code won't be sizeof(double) anyway, it will be much more.

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