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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like that's adding overhead to every operation to catch the few operations that could result in a nan.

But I guess you could provide alternative safe versions of float operations to account for this. Which may be what you meant thinking about it lol

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I would want the safe version to be the default, but yeah, both should exist. 🙃