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[โ€“] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's the correct line of thought in most cases, as most numbers we work with on a daily basis are not fractions. This might be skewed differently in the US, but it's a solution which works in most cases. Heuristics are not necessarily perfect solutions and additional considerations need to be applied when they fail.