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The problem is that decimal types don't make things any better, at least when you have finite precision. They have the same problems with rounding error. The error analysis is exactly the same when designing your algorithms, only in a different base.

The only thing that they make easier is parsing and displaying numbers. The number of times where you deal with things that are guaranteed to be perfectly represented by powers of ten are relatively few.



> The number of times where you deal with things that are guaranteed to be perfectly represented by powers of ten are relatively few.

For a physicist, a few. For an accountant, all.




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