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Author cool-RR
Recipients Alexander.Belopolsky, belopolsky, cool-RR, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah, vstinner
Date 2012-09-19.21:36:56
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In the example I gave, Decimal is clearly preferred over float. Why would we use float to represent the ratio of the bonus to the client? Why would we risk imprecision there when Decimal provides us with perfect precision?
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2012-09-19 21:36:57cool-RRsetrecipients: + cool-RR, rhettinger, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, vstinner, skrah, Alexander.Belopolsky
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