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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by telegato on Friday July 12, 2019 @11:19AM (#20421325)
To be fair in Javascript 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 also is false :). Not saying that Javascript is a great programming language.
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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by PaulHoule on Friday July 12, 2019 @11:26AM (#20421378)
It's a problem in all mainstream programming languages that Excel has a strange answer to.

The trouble with it is that it is a big distraction to the "non-professional programmer" who uses tools like Excel.

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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by thfuran on Friday July 12, 2019 @02:42PM (#20423232)
Yeah, that's the case for anything using IEEE 754 floating points.
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