My current client is in the middle of hiring some Java developers and as I mentioned earlier in March (Interviewing – the importance of PASSION!) I’ve been doing some of the interviewing. One of the things we’ve done is to create a technical task to see how the candidates actually code. It’s a simple exercise that requires them to think through some of the basics of financial operations and one thing that has surprised me has been the common use of doubles to represent financial values. It’s been highlighted for some time that this is not a great thing to do but someone actually challenged me to show that it wasn’t.
So here we go…
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Why we don't use Doubles for Financial Calculations
Why we don't use Doubles for Financial Calculations
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