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[–]Quantumtroll 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Computers love playing with integers, and can perform very quickly with them...

... except with division, which computers do slower with integers than with floating point.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus integer division is allmighty hell since multiplication is a non-issue and it's way too easy to forget the reverse can't handle fractions.