$3,415.3,900,000,000,003
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What crazy person puts commas after a decimal like that.
Some street-shitter who doesn't really know how to code or is bad with regexes or locales.
After how shitty the Obamacare website was after billions poured into it, I'm no longer surprised that Dems pick "winners" like that.
some coon who got the job because his skin is color of shit
Yeah counting from the right I was like "Ok, wow that's a lot of zer-oh... a decimal."
Anything beyond 3 sig figs is generally pointless but when you're publishing a number and your 3rd sig fig is literally 3x10e-10 you need fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.
Literally no one cares except people who were never going to vote for him anyway.
What’s crazy is that he literally campaigned on knowing and taking advantage of the rich people loopholes that both sides left in place. Like he said it out loud during a debate, fucking Dave Chappele commented on it!
I still love how they don't understand he didn't do anything wrong.
Is having a good accountant doing your taxes a crime now?
If they read it then they'd clearly see this as well:
https://imgur.com/a/czYLfHr
Which is a pretty key detail showing he paid millions in advance.
But I don't expect they care.
They should keep in mind:
https://imgur.com/a/G2i1V56
stop
"they don't understand..." / "they're too stupid to see..." / "they didn't notice that..."? no. they're being disingenuous. this is propaganda. it's intentional.
When saying, "they," it's more of an indictment of leftists in general, not the people who created this goofy calculator.
And they really don't get it. You can read any number of thousands of posts by them to elucidate. A vast majority think some insidious crime has happened that's going to get him arrested after "Biden wins."
Obviously the calculator is propaganda; it's a waste of time to make mention of something that's perfectly clear by it's very existence.
Well, so far they haven't claimed this is any kind of crime. They're just so totally and organically outraged. Not at all acting like they're bothered simply because they got the signal that they should be so very mad right now.
Sure, some make vague statements about Trump going to jail without saying why, but ultimately it's performative. They'll move on as soon as the news does.
It's floating point arithmetic. When I do the calculation in python (which uses floating point arithmetic) I get the same result.
lol, no.
(Tries it.) Yep, still busted. From the 2+2=5 set comes "Help, I can't make my webpage subtract a constant from something with two decimal places." Hell's sake, if decimal math is so hard for you cut that part off and just make it two integers.
I was going to see if I could look at the javascript to see where they fucked it but I'm too much of a neophyte - after I hit my third tracking JS file instead of one that did actual work, I quit.
It's just a floating point calculation of input - 750.0 without rounding to the nearest two decimal digits. Fire up a python shell and do 4165.39 - 750.0 and you'll get the exact same result as the website.
So at best they did the cardinal sin of programming and didn't test it. I'm not a CS guy, but couldn't they work around this by multiplying the input by 100, using an int instead of a float, then subtracting 75000, making it a float again, then dividing by 100?
Potentially yes, though they'd have to be careful to not do any sort of conversion to floating point at all, including using library functions to convert a string to a floating point number. Simply multiplying by 100.0 gives you the same problem:
There's also a class of numeric algorithms called arbitrary precision arithmetic that can be used to provide exact results from calculations between arbitrarily large numbers. Less flexible (but also able to provide exact results within the constraints of the size of the data type) are what they call "decimal data types" provided by some programming languages.
I maintain a small and obscure piece of open source financial software as a hobby project, and getting this stuff exactly right (which I'm sure I'm not, despite my best efforts) is a pain.
Ah, look, an IQ test to screen for people who know how taxes work.
I exploit tax loop holes for retirement savings and medical insurance.