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minus-square@NateNate60link-1•6 months agoNobody should be able to accumulate more than 2^31 dollars. That level of hoarding is just bad for society.
minus-square@CharlesMangionelinkEnglish3•6 months agodon’t forget you need decimals and negatives too
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-26 months agoWhat if your system needs to sum transaction values of hundreds of millions of accounts and report a total volume of transactions?
I’m not sure what that means
Nobody should be able to accumulate more than 2^31 dollars. That level of hoarding is just bad for society.
don’t forget you need decimals and negatives too
What if your system needs to sum transaction values of hundreds of millions of accounts and report a total volume of transactions?