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Re:Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts by simonbyrne on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:51PM (#15810709)
Additionally, the most widely used programming language in finance, Microsoft Excel, is based entirely on IEEE binary floating point arithmetic (though with a few hacks on top [1]).

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43046570/392585

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Re:Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts by Slartie on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:22AM (#15814725)
True, but the number of weird mistakes due to floating point inaccuracies that happened in Excel spreadsheets is probably too large to be accurately representable in a 32bit float number.
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