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Comment by TZubiri

18 hours ago

Precision?

Quite common in accounting, the accounting equation must balance, it's like a checksum

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nxobject  5 hours ago

Yes, OP started the sentence with that. But, you do make me wonder if floating-point imprecision would eventually lead to material issues...

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