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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24332731

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

LOL! Man I learned that in college and never used it ever again. I never came across any scenarios in my professional career as a software engineer where knowing this was useful at all outside of our labs/homework.

Anyone got any example where this knowledge became useful?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you’re doing any work with accounting, or writing test cases with floating point values.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Please tell me you aren't using floating points with money

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago

Knowing not to use floating point with money is good use of that knowledge.