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Jesse, what are you talking about?



Well, Mr White, if you look at all of the "weirdness" in physics with theories coming out because "the math says it's possible", then you'd see that it would be much more simple if we were not allowed to have negative numbers because we're only using u64 integers. we'd have more digits for precision as well.


I find that weird outliers are usually evidence that the underlying model is flawed in some fundamental way, but sometimes I think people believe the exceptions are fundamental, and a lot of effort goes to the wrong place.




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