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by worik·1mo ago·view on hn ↗
Never use floats for financial calculations. Because hard won experience.

"Floats" are simulations of Real Numbers, and Reals are uncountable. Not what you want for finance, where everything is counted.

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I suggest reading the comment I was replying to since it contextualises the answer quite well. Hard to find absolutes in real life outside of thermodynamics.