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Old 11-13-2020, 03:17 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
My friends who believe what the news tells them don't know the difference between real numbers and integers. If you are writing software to tally the votes (on birds, right?) would you use reals or integers? If not, why not?
Which computing language? Cobol is stuck using real numbers, Fortran, C &++ can deal with integers, SQL is "like, whatever" its a string conversion. Unless you can find it in a library for your processor, assembler needs you to write your own function so it doesn't matter.
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