Float Precision Loses Payment Company $1.2M Over 3 Years?!

FLOAT PRECISION DISASTER! Used float for money math! $0.02 rounding error per customer! 470K customers * $0.07 error = $1.27M stolen! Class action lawsuit! CFO FIRED! $4.5M total cost!

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