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W Balboos, GHB8-Jan-21 3:58
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First of all, we talking about sorting - so what bugs are you talking about?

Secondly, they have, really, two other options:

1 - Store as integers and divide by 100 (for US$, at least) - so it's back to FP arithmetic
2 - Store as string values - in which case the sort will fail (unless stored left-paddded with blanks or 0's) - and you'll still need to convert them, along the way, to FP in order to do arithmetic with them.

As for your original premise? Bugs? NOT! Round-off errors due to their representation in memory is something a REAL programmer keeps in mind. How much do you think anyone spends on the Amazon website where 64-bit FP's round-off errors will become significant?

There's no excuse for the high priced item to show up in the middle so often, except, of course, marketing.

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