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by adzm 97 days ago
Won't this lose precision as you near the limits of a double? Or is it using BigInt behind the scenes?
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It's just standard JS numbers (IEEE-754 doubles), not BigInt.

The distance is accumulated in millimeters, so even if someone somehow scrolled hundreds of kilometers we'd still be far below the 2^53 integer precision limit.

So precision loss shouldn't realistically happen.