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It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be? (programming.dev)
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[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The difference is meaningless for large values of C.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Though if it's a signed number a large enough value can become a negative.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

If it's a float, it will stop incrementing when the precision stops covering every integer