• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    Yes you can. You’re vastly underestimating the size of an f64. Give me a concrete example of a money operation that fails with f64 (for normal companies; assuming you aren’t a stock exchange or Visa or whatever).

    0.1f64 + 0.2f64 != 0.3f64

    Why not?

    Encoding in assumptions about a fixed amount of supported currencies in a system is broadly speaking not a good idea

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      8 days ago

      0.1f64 + 0.2f64 != 0.3f64

      It does if you round it to the nearest penny.

      Encoding in assumptions about a fixed amount of supported currencies in a system is broadly speaking not a good idea

      Most sensible programming languages allow enums to be non-exhaustive.