# Floating point addition in Julia

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**Category:** General Usage\
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**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/floating-point-addition-in-julia/72341 "2021-12-01T05:07:00Z")\
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Continuing from @Oscar_Smith, …or use [GitHub - JuliaMath/FixedPointNumbers.jl: fixed point types for julia](https://github.com/JuliaMath/FixedPointNumbers.jl) or rational numbers (`3 // 7`). These are all good options, under the right circumstances.

Hey, maybe this post helps: [PSA: floating-point arithmetic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-floating-point-arithmetic/8678).

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