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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by colejohnson66 on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:25PM (#20898313)
Why is it that a program that people use for accounting doesn’t use arbitrary precision arithmetic?
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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by jz391 on Friday September 06, 2019 @02:44PM (#20898540)
Because for accounting the numbers easily fit in the supported range; even the US National Debt (https://www.usdebtclock.org/)...
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