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colejohnson66 on Sept 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

Why is it that a program that people use for accounting doesn’t use arbitrary precision arithmetic?

jz391 on Sept 6, 2019 [–]

Because for accounting the numbers easily fit in the supported range; even the US National Debt (https://www.usdebtclock.org/)...

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