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0 pointskoverstreet1y ago0 comments

It's somewhat acceptable with double precision floats - never single precision floats.

But far better to just use integer cents.

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Integer cents implies a specific rounding mode (truncation). That's probably not what you should be using. Floating point cents gets the best of both worlds (if you set the right rounding mode).

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0 pointskoverstreet1y ago0 comments

It's somewhat acceptable with double precision floats - never single precision floats.

But far better to just use integer cents.

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IX-1031y ago

Integer cents implies a specific rounding mode (truncation). That's probably not what you should be using. Floating point cents gets the best of both worlds (if you set the right rounding mode).

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