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re: numbers, you could store them as integers, but just encoded as 10 times their value. So 1.5 becomes 15.

Would reduce max score to 400M and you'd have to round 0.25 up or down. Would probably want to drop the 0.01 cards too.

super cool project

Yea - this is basically "fixed point but not binary" and it would totally work.

> re: numbers, you could store them as integers, but just encoded as 10 times their value. So 1.5 becomes 15.

I find it really weird that they dismissed fixed point as being too technical because it's actually really simple, it's basically just this.

I dismissed it as too technical for that blog post. I expected this post to be read by a wide variety of people, so I tried to keep technical stuff to a minimum. I did say it's simple and that it's what I'd probably use if I kept going with the project.

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