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by Tao331 1514 days ago
> Ethereum uses uint256 for many things to avoid having to do floating point math.

Wow. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to Solidity, so it hadn't previously occured to me that it doesn't have floating point. It stretches the limits of the imagination to consider the insanity we'd be seeing if Ethereum did have floating point math.