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blibble
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64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybo...
on CME they're not decimal though, they're binary fractions
so floating point works fine as floating point is binary fractions
hot_gril
on Sept 20, 2023
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Oh right, I didn't make the obvious connection to 128.
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so floating point works fine as floating point is binary fractions