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  • You are a fintech dev using floating point? And your advice is to encode things as strings?

    This is why I got out of fintech.

    (I am sorry, I know there are horrors and I am sure I am not familiar with your exact scenario.)

    Edit: just for anyone who passes by: try to stick with integers in a currency’s smallest unit of division. (This is only one small bit of this problem, but the number of times I have seen currency values in floating point makea me psychotic.)