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telegato on July 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)

To be fair in Javascript 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 also is false :). Not saying that Javascript is a great programming language.

PaulHoule on July 12, 2019 | [–]

It's a problem in all mainstream programming languages that Excel has a strange answer to.

The trouble with it is that it is a big distraction to the "non-professional programmer" who uses tools like Excel.

thfuran on July 12, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, that's the case for anything using IEEE 754 floating points.

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