• Jajcus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If working with currency use types and formating functions appropriate for currency. Not float.

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      1 year ago

      I was recalling a project in perl, which doesn’t have a variety of types. If you add values, you get a scalar, which will be a float if the numbers are not integers.

      I am aware my statement isn’t true in several languages