It's the 21st century: All computers should do Base10 math by default. We have cycles to burn, and some ARM and IBM CPUs even have decimal math instructions.
Only true propellerheaded programmers should ever see or care about binary floating point issues. NB: I do massively scalable wireless data collection networks for IoT (using variously, floats, doubles, and half-precision, as called for by their use case), so I'm one of those people, but ordinary folks and users should never, ever, be impacted by binary imprecision.
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Only true propellerheaded programmers should ever see or care about binary floating point issues. NB: I do massively scalable wireless data collection networks for IoT (using variously, floats, doubles, and half-precision, as called for by their use case), so I'm one of those people, but ordinary folks and users should never, ever, be impacted by binary imprecision.