As someone with a software background and who’s job it is to write software...if this is true this isn’t a “glitch”. This would be something that was Intentionally implemented. There is no “glitch” or “bug” that would switch votes. And something at that level, an election machine, I would imagine would have been through all kinds of testing to make sure it “performs” like it is supposed to.
Only software engineers understand this comment. For the layman, an integer is a discrete number: 0, 1, 2, etc.
A floating point number contains decimals: 1.11, 1.12, 1.1234553245, etc.
There is literally no reason to code a vote counting system in floating point except to cheat. In fact, many programming languages have a positive integer construct, which is a discrete number greater or equal to 0.
As someone with a software background and who’s job it is to write software...if this is true this isn’t a “glitch”. This would be something that was Intentionally implemented. There is no “glitch” or “bug” that would switch votes. And something at that level, an election machine, I would imagine would have been through all kinds of testing to make sure it “performs” like it is supposed to.
They programmed the vote tally in float man!
Only software engineers understand this comment. For the layman, an integer is a discrete number: 0, 1, 2, etc.
A floating point number contains decimals: 1.11, 1.12, 1.1234553245, etc.
There is literally no reason to code a vote counting system in floating point except to cheat. In fact, many programming languages have a positive integer construct, which is a discrete number greater or equal to 0.
For the electronic hardware guys, it's like a circuit with a floating ground.