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		Java's Floating-Point (Im)Precision (drdobbs.com)
		2 points by fooqux on Sept 30, 2014 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

techdog on Sept 30, 2014 [–]

This is a well known issue with all languages that use IEEE 754 double-precision floating point numbers (which is basically all modern languages, including JavaScript). It's also why financial sites do not use types double or float.

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