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Erlang likewise:

1> 0.1 + 0.3.

0.4

Nope, Erlang's floats are still IEEE754 floats:

    1> 1.0e21 + 1 == 1.0e21.
    true

Right. It has arbitrary-precision ints, but lossy floats.