Warp wrote:
> 
> Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
> : And the only benefit would be lower memory usage, which is
> : really only relevant if you are storing huge arrays.
> 
>   It's not the only benefit. The other benefit would be precision. If you
> use very large integers, floats may lose information.
>   This may be important when making mathematical operations. For example:
> 
> 25^7/1953125  ( = 3125 )
> 
> may give a different result if we use integers or if we use floats.

... and this is why one should never check equality between two floats!

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