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Floating point arithmetics (eviltoast.org)
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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 day ago

Use a dedicated data type or library. Some languages also have something like python's Decimal type

>>> .1 + .2
0.30000000000000004
>>> Decimal(".1") + Decimal(".2")
Decimal('0.3')