1996-05-22 - Re: The Crisis with Remailers

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From: bryce@digicash.com
To: perry@piermont.com
Message Hash: 3711af2b330c3cbda471aec83f847eb6ef2ceba7ce34ddd6a4628981d4dca902
Message ID: <199605221708.TAA00752@digicash.com>
Reply To: <199605221614.MAA23436@jekyll.piermont.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-05-22 22:57:45 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 06:57:45 +0800

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From: bryce@digicash.com
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 06:57:45 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: The Crisis with Remailers
In-Reply-To: <199605221614.MAA23436@jekyll.piermont.com>
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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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