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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by mlindner on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:22AM (#33705458)
Fixed point, not floating point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by gcr on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:53AM (#33707066)
Floating point clocks do lose precision after long enough time though; see https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/dont-store-that...

Storing floating point coordinates for example is what causes the "farlands" world generation behavior in Minecraft, for example.

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