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You don't need to thoroughly understand the entire spec, nor do you need to know that 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.300000000000004. "Computers can't really represent floating point numbers exactly" is generally good enough. (Also: you added "human" as a qualifier; you didn't have that before so I responded to your statement as it was written.)



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