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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by bigiain on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:28PM (#18836578)
I did a web project in the gambling space ~10 years back - we were legally required to perform all calculations as integers in ten thousandths of a cent (or millionths of a dollar).

We chose to _not_ do _any_ calculations client side in Javascript...

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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by dotancohen on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:48AM (#18838274)
Which regulation is that? I've worked on financial applications, but not gambling, and I've not heard of this regulation. I should probably know about it!
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by bigiain on Sunday January 06, 2019 @05:18PM (#18841098)
Australian, or possibly Tasmanian state regs. This would have been around 2011 or so (The Samsung Galaxy S2 was the "top of the range Android phone" at the time...)
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by ajanuary on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:59AM (#18838919)
I worked for a gambling company in the UK for a bit. They did all their maths in pennies, not thousandths of a penny.
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