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"Casualties", not kills. Perhaps using floating point is for working with another Terminator, or the decimal value being calculated based on the wound inflicted, with a whole number being a kill.

Or really, just to Look Cool And Technical And Shit.

To nobody's surprise, Skynet is a strict utilitarian who has rationally concluded that plucking one billion eyelashes is equivalent to one murder.

There's a lot of camera-eye real estate for zeros!

So T800 is indeed coded in Javascript, I knew it! What else to expect of devs in 2029

It’s because JavaScript has the most example code in the LLM’s training data that writes the Terminator source code.

Of course not! As is well known, T800 is coded in COBOL ([1]).

[1]: https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...

By this guy: https://x.com/ThrillScience/status/1249742678532620293

Maybe it is fixed point though

And that his vision readout is Motorola 6502 machine code, including comments for peeks and pokes.

It was a simpler time.