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Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by josefx on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:49AM (#23678083)
> More importantly, "decimal" does not suffer from the arithmetic issues you get when using IEEE 754 floating point.

It can represent represent 1/10 correctly, it can represent 1/2 correctly (so can float), how about 1/3? Outside of a few happy coincidences you are back to the same old issues.

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