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Re:Go 2, here we come by pvg on Thursday November 29, 2018 @05:25PM (#18564718)
Then you can lose precision that you might actually need - a bug that's even more annoying to track down than straight overflow.
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Re:Go 2, here we come by quickthrower2 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:09PM (#18565420)
Yes indeed! But what is the alternative, especially if you are using approximations to transcendental constants?
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