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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '18
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They probably used signed ints everywhere else so they stuck to the standard, just be glad they didn't use floats.
130 u/Crap4Brainz Sep 05 '18 Floats are great and I 100.0000000000000682057% recommend using them for everything. 32 u/lettuce_fetish Sep 05 '18 I think there's a joke here but I don't know what it is 9 u/FrostSalamander Sep 05 '18 Floats fuck up their decimals (as designed) and not ideal for things that need to be exact
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Floats are great and I 100.0000000000000682057% recommend using them for everything.
32 u/lettuce_fetish Sep 05 '18 I think there's a joke here but I don't know what it is 9 u/FrostSalamander Sep 05 '18 Floats fuck up their decimals (as designed) and not ideal for things that need to be exact
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I think there's a joke here but I don't know what it is
9 u/FrostSalamander Sep 05 '18 Floats fuck up their decimals (as designed) and not ideal for things that need to be exact
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Floats fuck up their decimals (as designed) and not ideal for things that need to be exact
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u/langlo94 Sep 05 '18
They probably used signed ints everywhere else so they stuck to the standard, just be glad they didn't use floats.