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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)
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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

idk if you ever had to actually work with floats,

but in statistics, you deal with NaNs all the time. Data is absent from the data set. If it would be an error every time, you wouldn't get anything done.