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Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

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600 points codetrotter | 1 comments | 05 Apr 23 21:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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Koshkin ◴[05 Apr 23 22:59 UTC] No.35461645[source]▶
Only the downvoting can save him.
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EGreg ◴[05 Apr 23 23:01 UTC] No.35461656[source]▶
Will he be the first person to have negative karma otherwise? And the most tremendous one at that! Believe me, no one will have smaller karma than him, nobody.

What happens if he gets downvoted then? Will it wrap around to the HIGHEST KARMA? :)

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dheera ◴[05 Apr 23 23:22 UTC] No.35461879[source]▶
No, if an overflow at 65535 occurs it would be to 0, not negative.

signed 16-bit ints are -32768 to 32767, unsigned 16-bit ints are 0 to 65535

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maximilianroos ◴[05 Apr 23 23:30 UTC] No.35461962{3}[source]▶
<a rare sighting of an int17>
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1. muzani ◴[06 Apr 23 00:18 UTC] No.35462404{4}[source]▶
Why allocate more bits than you ever need?