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Re:0.30000000000000004 by Thiez on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:25AM (#21691029)
That is simply not true. The C# decimal type doesn't accumulate errors when adding, unless you exceed its ~28 digits of precision. E.g. see here: https://rextester.com/RMHNNF58645
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Re:0.30000000000000004 by recursive on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @11:33AM (#21693842)
> unless you exceed its ~28 digits of precision

Precisely. That's why I specified ~ 10^26 addition operations.

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