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This is FTX, remember.


This is less of a "haha FTX so dumb" and more of a "how could that possibly ever hang together for 2 years??"


Nah, seems like they'd be more likely to use floats for accounting.


Not quite the worst use for floats, bad though that would be.

I've received a few SMSes over the pandemic that used a float for their caller ID.

Not sure why the German Federal government chose to identify itself as "+4.4786E+11" when welcoming me into the country (actually me switching my UK SIM card to no-longer-Airplane-mode) and telling me to quarantine and test.


I recently recieved an email from Phillips (re CPAP recall) which said "In the meantime, your device registration confirmation number is 2.02xxxxE+15." [some digits obscurred by me, although they dropped some of the trailing digits].




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