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asolove
on Jan 19, 2010
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Six months of using Scala and Lift
I personally didn't realize this was
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inefficient. Can someone give the preferable alternative?
jfager
on Jan 19, 2010
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It's not an efficiency issue. Adding floating point numbers naively left-to-right can introduce huge errors, even in small data sets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problem...
gclaramunt
on Jan 20, 2010
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But is not limited to map/reduce... every time you use floating point god kills a kitten
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