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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I know this is in jest, but if 0.1+0.2!=0.3 hasn't caught you out at least once, then you haven't even done any programming.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Me making my first calculator in c.

[–] labsin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

IMO they should just remove the equality operator on floats.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

what if i add more =

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 months ago

That should really be written as the gamma function, because factorial is only defined for members of Z. /s