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I'm surprised the article doesn't explain how float numbers are stored in memory according to IEEE that's the main reason you don't use them to represent money.

If you are an engineer who doesn't know what a mantissa is, stop two minutes for a cool ride https://lashewi.medium.com/storing-currency-values-and-float...




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