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		mlindner on Nov 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SR... Fixed point, not floating point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic

gcr on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

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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