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avgcorrection on April 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Aztec monks with 1/55 HP no longer die when pickin...

> Seems all that could have been avoided by using rationals in general

Why can’t they store HP internally as “millihealth” integers, do integer arithmetic (including division), and then divide that by 1000 purely for display?

firstlink on April 15, 2023 [–]

This would require competent senior programmers who are way too expensive, and anyways once hired are used for bullshit tasks like project management.

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