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recursive
3 days ago
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0.30000000000000004
In this case, it's both. Decimal floating point types do
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lose precision with base-10 numbers, unless using trig, square roots, arbitrary division and the like.
jsjohnst
3 days ago
> arbitrary division
Like commonly happens doing financial calculations, especially doing interest calculations.
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