>From what I've seen in the wild and searching for options on the Web, using big integers to store the lowest denomination of any given currency is very popular indeed, and I suspect ir should also perform better as a bonus.
On Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 10:33:16 PM UTC-4, José Colón wrote: > > I read that a common way to demonstrate that floating point numbers suffer > from approximation problems is by calculating this: > > 0.3 - 0.1 * 3 > > which should produce 0 but in Java, Python, and Javascript for example, > they produce -5.551115123125783e-17 . > > Surprisingly (or not, ;) ), Go produces the correct 0 result! I wonder why > is this so? Is it some higher precision being used versus these other > languages? Or is it some extra correcting logic behind the scenes? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
