• @call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
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    1014 days ago

    More people need to learn to use Rational types. A pretty large majority of the numbers that people care about in real life can easily be represented by a ratio of integers, and they allow math with perfect precision.

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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      714 days ago

      Or just BigDecimal or an equivalent if rational types aren’t easy to use in your language (e.g if you’d have to literally enter the denominator and numerator).

    • @Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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      313 days ago

      Someone posted this article a while back that goes into more detail on some alternatives, as well as contains one of the best and most intuitive explanations of floating point that I’ve ever read.