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Re: The Crisis with Remailers

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Subject: Re: The Crisis with Remailers
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 19:08:51 +0200
cc: Matts Kallioniemi <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
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> It is true enough that *rates* can be stored as floats if you want,
> but never actual sums.
> 
> Perry


That's interesting.  Because rates never approach 2^23, and 
because you never need that much precision with rates?  It seems
like a bad idea to me anyway.  Why not just use an Int32 if you 
don't need that much precision?


Regards,

Bryce



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