Re:An oral history of Bank Python
by brazzy on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:12AM
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Exactly. Floating point is inappropriate for anything related to accounting (payments, balances, etc.), but when the numbers you're producing are effectively forecasts or estimates, it's no different than what floats were originally invented for (numerical modelling in physics and engineering).
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