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64-Bit Bank Balances ‘Ought to be Enough for Anybody’? | Rafael Batiati | Sep 19, 2023 (tigerbeetle.com)
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[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In a perfect world, 32 bits would be enough.

[–] ericjmorey 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what that means

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nobody should be able to accumulate more than 2^31 dollars. That level of hoarding is just bad for society.

[–] CharlesMangione@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

don't forget you need decimals and negatives too

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What if your system needs to sum transaction values of hundreds of millions of accounts and report a total volume of transactions?

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

In a perfect 1995 world