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hulk23
22 May 24 17:04
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something to do with padi placing my back bet at 4.700000000000000001 instead of 4.7 ??

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Report longbridge May 22, 2024 10:15 PM BST
floating point error (though it's lazy of BF to display it) or a new hulk theory of how hulk is being cheated?
Report hulk23 May 22, 2024 10:19 PM BST
floating point error ?? did you just make that up

to me that would appear as if bets are allocated a price which will make no difference to the return but will ensure they're not getting matched until everything at 4.7 has disappeared
Report hulk23 May 22, 2024 10:21 PM BST
sounds like something a mechanic would say.

yeah mate, it's your floating point error isn't it.  going to be fairly pricey.
Report TameTheTiger May 22, 2024 10:34 PM BST
How many threads today was it Bulk ? LaughLaughLaughLaugh

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Report hulk23 May 22, 2024 10:39 PM BST
how are Leverkusen doing Tigger ??
Report longbridge May 23, 2024 11:15 AM BST
"floating point error ?? did you just make that up"

No hulk, I'm a lifelong technology professional.  Binary (which is what computers use internally) cannot exactly represent floating point numbers (ie numbers with a decimal point in them, like BF odds or stakes).  So you get things like (eg) "4.700000000000000001 instead of 4.7".

Normal practice would be to mitigate this by only showing a limited number of decimal places so the error is not so apparent to the user.
Report elise May 23, 2024 11:18 AM BST
u lost him at binary, this is the bloke that thought 12s x 108 was 13k ....
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