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workerIbe | 8 years ago

I imagine someone used a float as an index, once.

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__s|8 years ago

I've dealt with systems using floats as IDs in their DB. Better than when the monetary values were floats

kibibu|8 years ago

Twitter used to use JavaScript numbers to represent various ids in their JSON API. These are, per the JavaScript spec, double-precision (64-bit) floating point numbers. You can only really use these to represent 53-bit integers, so they had to add string versions.

(see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/twitter-ids)

CyberDildonics|8 years ago

Actually in the CG shader language you can index arrays with floats to get automatic linear interpolation, but I digress...