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Technologists trying to explain why the use of float primitives instead of ints invalidates any credibility of voting machines (media.patriots.win) 🇺🇸🎖️ MEME ARMY 🎖️🇺🇸
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– jgardner 2 points ago +2 / -0

In a nutshell: computers can store numbers as integers (0, 1, 2, 3, etc...) or as floats. The problem with floats is that they are not precise. On a computer, 1/3 does not give you 0.3333....

There is no reason to use floats for the number of votes.

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