132: Dealing with Money in programming

In this mini fragment Kaushik talks about dealing with the Money object. With money we need decimals, but the obvious solution of using a float or double may not work as advertised. Listen to this episode to find out why and how you can go about dealing with this. Show Notes The infamous Short - Ep029: All about the infamous 65,536 dex method count IEEE_754 float storage format How binary fractions work Problematic snippet 1: println(1.03-0.42) # prints 0.6100000000000001 Problematic snippet 2: var x = 0F (1..100).forEach { i -> x += 0.01F } println(x) # 0.99999934 vs 1 Sponsors Bitrise - Bitrise is your mobile continuous integration and delivery for your whole team, with dozens of integrations for your favorite services. Contact @fragmentedcast [twitter.com] @donnfelker and +DonnFelker @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe