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Comment Added at : 2014-09-25 04:50:07

Comment on Tutorial : float vs double data types in Java By Baski
About the dangers of using floats and doubles for currency: a wonderful article that discusses some of the issues with floats and doubles and precision v. accuracy is http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/91float/ It goes into great detail about some of the issues with storing decimal numbers and the limitations of computers.

It even covers some interesting disasters in rocketry, costly software bugs, and how using floating point numbers can result in fraud.

It's a fascinating read. Take the time to see why floats and doubles can be costly.

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