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Floating point arithmetics (eviltoast.org)

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[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

As other people mentioned, things like the decimal structure works well, but you can also just use an int to store how many pennies something costs and convert it to dollars for display.