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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)
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[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

What do you do about a dataset which contains 11999 fine numbers, but one of them is NaN because George called in sick that week? Throw away the whole dataset because it doesn't fit the data type?

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