A billing system that doesn't suck (or, Why Floating Point Numbers Are Bad)(blog.plover.com)
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A billing system that doesn't suck (or, Why Floating Point Numbers Are Bad)
http://blog.plover.com/prog/Moonpig.html#fp-sucks
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> In any event, the print here does not print the correct number of seconds. Instead it prints ME CAGO EN LA LECHE, which I have discovered is Spanish for “I shit in the milk”.
Dear long-ago author... If you're going to write a programming post about potential bugs and unexpected pitfalls, do not lie to your readers about the "true behavior" in order to make an extremely lame joke.
This is doubly-true when you're talking about perl...
Dear long-ago author... If you're going to write a programming post about potential bugs and unexpected pitfalls, do not lie to your readers about the "true behavior" in order to make an extremely lame joke.
This is doubly-true when you're talking about perl...