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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That means it's being stored as a signed integer for some reason. The other half of the binary space is for the negative values, which was probably a poor choice. Unless there is a valid case when you can have negative money. Is debt a thing in Maple Story?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Not at all, but it definitely used to get exploited a lot back in the day.

I bet they thought using signed integers made math easier or something.

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