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   Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:27:57 JST Tom Ritchford

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   @0xabad1dea A quibble: floating point numbers give exact values for addition, multiplication and subtraction involving integers if the results aren't too large.

   In 32-bit floating point, you can exactly represent all integers up to 16,777,217.

   > You should never, ever use floats for things like money

   You can't do things like compound interest and mortgage payments with integer arithmetic! 😁

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   I have a relevant story here that you might find amusing.

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   The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 04:05:33 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

   MOST people are not filled with bigotry and hate. Nazis SEEM like they are a huge population of people, but their ideas are wildly unpopular with society at large.

   In other words, they are a fringe group.

   The ONLY reason they are gaining more and more power is because LIBERALS LET THEM