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Re:0.30000000000000004 by dorgo on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:14PM (#21687638)
Google uses 1000000 as multiplier in their APIs.

Edit: And they forbid equality comparisons for rationals. For some reason even >= is not allowed.

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Re:0.30000000000000004 by tombert on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:19PM (#21687684)
I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me (I suspected I wasn't the first person to come to the realization that there's no reason not to choose a giant number :) ).
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