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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.

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.

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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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