Have you performed simple arithmetic operations like 0.1 + 0.2? You might have gotten something strange: 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004.

  • luciole (he/him)
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    2 hours ago

    I hope you work in a field where worrying about your integers hitting larger values than 9 quadrillion is justified.

    • @[email protected]
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      Could be a crypto key, or a randomly distributed 64-bit database row ID, or a memory offset in a stack dump of a 64 bit program