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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by gavinhoward on Saturday October 21, 2023 @10:40PM (#37972365)
IIRC, Excel uses floating point for calculations, so they're not wrong.
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Re:The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology ... by ben_w on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:06AM (#37975979)
It also uses them for phone numbers, if you're not careful.

I have, in real life, received an SMS from… let's see… 4.4786e+11 welcoming me to Germany and giving me a link to the German COVID quarantine and testing rules (I was already in Germany at the time, I just turned off Airplane mode for the first time in 6 months).

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