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discardorama on July 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: 1/999999999999999999999998999999999999999999999999

Why not just use

     scale=499

instead of

     scale=500-1

? I'm curious.

boxfire on July 2, 2015 [–]

Originally in my terminal I was experimenting to find a cutoff for the point where the numbers become inaccurate. All of those formulas were in terms of digits and had a -1 on the end.

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