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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Floating point errors are a product of how floating points work as a mathematical concept. So they're independent of the programming language and can happen everywhere.

In this case though, I doubt it's a critical issue. So the player "died" when they actually had 0.000000000027 hp left or whatever. Who cares? Do you need to be that precise?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Hanging on with 1.70E-31 health.