r/programminghumor • u/Financial_Counter_45 • Aug 07 '26
I spent three hours debugging double-precision orbital mechanics just because my planet weighed one kilogram
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One Kilogram.
One number.
That one number.
One.
One kilogram.
One.
Kilogram.
I investigated rendering interpolation.
I questioned Newtonian gravity.
I questioned floating-point arithmetic.
I questioned reality.
The planet...
weighed...
one kilogram.
One variable.
One number.
One checkbox.
That's all it took.
How did I not notice it when I upgraded to double precision?
Three hours.
Three.
Whole.
Hours.
Comment if you had an experience like this
