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How would you like to pay your NaN pounds? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Avicenna@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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A NaN spotted in the wild.

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[–] verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh, it’s not a problem if prices are being converted to floating point at some point before being displayed.

What you don’t want to do is store the definitive price as a floating point and perform calculations with it. I don’t see any reason to assume that’s happening here.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It still makes no sense to convert to float and is likely to lead to a big at some point