Re:Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
by ElectricalUnion on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:00PM
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> Decimals are notoriously hairy to implement
That's because the binary is implemented in hardware for you; and those days you can usually (but not always) trust the hardware to do the correct thing; if you have to implement it youself (say, deterministic, side-effect free math), it's also hairy.
That's because the binary is implemented in hardware for you; and those days you can usually (but not always) trust the hardware to do the correct thing; if you have to implement it youself (say, deterministic, side-effect free math), it's also hairy.