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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 5 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.677s | source
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unyttigfjelltol ◴[05 Apr 23 22:58 UTC] No.35461635[source]▶
Does HN overflow to zero when dang gets there?
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1. phendrenad2 ◴[05 Apr 23 23:13 UTC] No.35461796[source]▶
They should store karma points as floats, so it won't overflow, it'll just loose precision.
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2. toast0 ◴[05 Apr 23 23:29 UTC] No.35461957[source]▶
Assuming karma is added and removed one at a time, there's a number that's not particularly large where you can't add any more.
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3. notepalf ◴[05 Apr 23 23:52 UTC] No.35462160[source]▶
Just keep adding karma
4. dang ◴[06 Apr 23 02:07 UTC] No.35463216[source]▶
HN runs on Lisps that don't lose precision, just slow down.
5. rurban ◴[06 Apr 23 11:32 UTC] No.35466963[source]▶
arc is written in mzscheme and/or racket, and not C. It has infinite integer precision.

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki