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  • @call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
    10•9 days ago

    More devs should 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.

    eta: even monetary types are just a form of Rational, with the denominators clamped to powers of ten

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
      7•2 months 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.worldEnglish
      3•2 months 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.

  • @zerofk@lemm.ee
    4•2 months ago

    There is a paper titled “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic” by David Goldberg. It’s a bit theoretical, but IMO it’s a must-read for any programmer doing more than the occasional floating point calculation. It goes beyond just limited precision and rounding errors.