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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Floats are only great if you deal with numbers that have no needs for precision and accuracy. Want to calculate the F cost of an a* node? Floats are good enough.

But every time I need to get any kind of accuracy, I go straight for actual decimal numbers. Unless you are in extreme scenarios, you can afford the extra 64 to 256 bits in your memory