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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Because ints are way smaller. Over a certain value it would always fail.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yea but at those values floating points can't represent fractions anyway

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly. So if cast to int you'd either get an error or 0 for everything above a certain value.

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