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Re:0.30000000000000004 by ayush--s on Sunday April 02, 2017 @03:33PM (#14018585)
It's stuff that should be a part of very beginning of any CS101. Float arithmetics != Decimal arithmetics
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Re:0.30000000000000004 by derpadelt on Sunday April 02, 2017 @03:41PM (#14018640)
It is.
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Re:0.30000000000000004 by gnarbarian on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:30PM (#14020053)
Only if you're trying to scare the newbies away. This stuff does need to be learned at some point but cs101 should be about getting a feel for programming in general.

Focusing on the basics of objects/classes functions (with mandatory source control) is smart before killing their will to learn with nasty edge cases

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Re:0.30000000000000004 by jonsen on Sunday April 02, 2017 @11:45PM (#14020471)
I don't think fumbling around in a trial and error manner is the best start. The basic data types and the set of values they can represent should come early.
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