Code RoomFloat rounding drift
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Float rounding drift

Code reviewCode quality & reviewMid–Senior~18 min

Review this Python tax rounding used on invoice line totals.

Finance reconciliation reports a few cents of drift across large batches.

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1def round_cents(amount: float) -> int:
2 # amount is dollars; return cents, rounded to nearest cent
3 return int(round(amount * 100))
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