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This is intended to be a canonical post for this problem which is pretty common. Especially among beginners. I've heard that I should avoid using floating point variables for representing curren...
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Why is it considered bad practice to use float for representing currency?
*This is intended to be a canonical post for this problem which is pretty common. Especially among beginners.* --- I've heard that I should avoid using floating point variables for representing currency. What is the reason for that? Representing 123 dollars and 67 cents as 123.67 seems quite natural.