Post #1889556
2026-02-10 23:20 UTC
f is hexadecimal for 15, which could have been more clever
real is inherently unsuitable for human currencies since those are usually accounted for in cents or hundredths of cents, and floating-point rounding errors are not great for financial accountability, so rational formats with a denominator of 100 or 10,000 would be more suitable.
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@sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2026-02-10 23:38
I feel like the pins would get worse if I had to come up with 15 Fair enough actually. But if you were doing a Computer Science paper and given proper money (e.g. $2.80) you would need to answer real, and given Monopoly money (increments of $50 I believe) you would answer integer. It turns out the real world (no pun intended) is more complicated...