The Rounding Error
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At one point, someone noticed that some financial transactions weren't summing up correctly in the C# application Nancy supported. It didn't require Superman or a Peter Gibbons to figure out why: someone was using floating points for handling dollar amounts. That kicked off a big refactoring project to replace the usage of double types with decimal types. Everything seemed to go well, at least until there was a network hiccup and the application couldn't connect to the database. Let's see if you can figure out what happened:

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[…] big refactoring project to replace the usage of double types with decimal types. Everything seemed to go well, at least until there was a network hiccup and the application couldn’t connect to the database. Let’s see if you can figure out what happened:

MessageBox.Show("Please decimal check the connection details. Also check firewall settings (port 1433) and network connectivity.");

What a clbuttic mistake.

I don’t actually get the joke with clbuttic, though. 🤔

  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    This is weird… I had a dream last night where I was trying to decide whether to use float or BigDecimal (Java). Unfortunately, I don’t remember the scenario or what I decided on.

    I swear that not all my dreams are this mundane.