The FBI has just executed a SEARCH WARRANT at the Fulton County, GA Election HQ

[Smokin Joe]

Let's say you add an multiplier algorithm to the counting software that counts every Biden vote as 1.0012 votes and every Trump vote as 0.9988 votes.  To do so would require using floating point variables to store the sums of those tallies instead of long (32-bit) integers.  Otherwise, there is absolutely positively NO reason whatsoever to use 32-bit floats instead of 32-bit integers.

The fact that they did use floats screams out that something is wrong with their tabulation code.

Also, it should be pointed out that changes were made to Dominion software one month before election day that were never certified by the State (in violation of State law).  This was reported by the AJC (Atlanta Urinal-Constipation).

Even formatting cells in a Excel spreadsheet, you can take the number of decimal places way out there, or limit them to zero (round the whole numbers off). It's all in how you format the cell.
While the latter might occasionally display minor errors (+/- 1) it will at least be whole numbers. Not to give them tips, but someone didn't do that, and the fractional values displayed.
We do it all the time doing survey calculations for directional/horizontal drilling, where the values used in calculations go out to eight decimal places, but the displayed values are limited to two, simply because hundredths of a foot are about as small as can be practically measured on the surface, and the full string of fractional values, while important in calculation after drilling four miles sideways, are unwieldy at best for reporting purposes.

[Hoodat]

Even formatting cells in a Excel spreadsheet, you can take the number of decimal places way out there, or limit them to zero (round the whole numbers off). It's all in how you format the cell.
While the latter might occasionally display minor errors (+/- 1) it will at least be whole numbers. .  .  .

This isn't a matter on how a number is displayed.  It is a matter on how the numbers are stored.  I wish I had a screenshot to show you what I saw.  There was one posted on the old Georgia 2020 election thread, but that has long disappeared.

Anyway, back to the numbers.  Yes, you can tell Excel how to display (format) a cell's contents.  But Excel uses floats for everything.  This changes how numbers are stored.

Let's say you wanted to store the number '11'.  For a long (32-bit) unsigned integer, it would read:

   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1011

But for a 32-bit float, it would read:

   0 10000010 01100000000000000000000

First digit = sign (+/-)    Teal digits = Exponent.  Maroon digits = Mantissa

Both numbers above represent 11.  But both are stored differently.  Excel uses only the second, then lies to you by rounding the display to whatever you tell it.  But it still keeps all those extra zeroes (11.0000000.......) in storage.

In any programming, you get to declare your variables (e.g. bool, character string, whole number (16-bit unsigned integer), signed integer (16-bit), long integer (32-bit), double integer (64-bit), etc.).  Vote tallies should be stored as long integers because there is never ever ever a case where there would be need for a fraction of a vote.  With whole numbers only, one never has need for exponent/mantissa format.  Yet Dominion uses floating point numbers.  And not only do they use them, but their software logged them in their connection to media outlets on election night with their periodic ticker reports.

btw, these are the same ticker reports where we saw Trump totals go down in some States as time passed.  Again, not possible.

I hope that clarifies.

[Fishrrman]

Hoodat observes:
"The Georgia GOP is corrupt as hell.  I'm not expecting anything to improve."

For all intents and purposes, Georgia is a blue state now.
Atlanta runs the place as New York City runs NY state.

The only way to break that is to send a modern-day William Tecumseh Sherman down there and burn the capital to the ground once again, while singing loudly the old tune "Marching Through Georgia" (yeah I know you hate that one, but you get the point).

[Smokin Joe]

This isn't a matter on how a number is displayed.  It is a matter on how the numbers are stored.  I wish I had a screenshot to show you what I saw.  There was one posted on the old Georgia 2020 election thread, but that has long disappeared.

Anyway, back to the numbers.  Yes, you can tell Excel how to display (format) a cell's contents.  But Excel uses floats for everything.  This changes how numbers are stored.

Let's say you wanted to store the number '11'.  For a long (32-bit) unsigned integer, it would read:

   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1011

But for a 32-bit float, it would read:

   0 10000010 01100000000000000000000

First digit = sign (+/-)    Teal digits = Exponent.  Maroon digits = Mantissa

Both numbers above represent 11.  But both are stored differently.  Excel uses only the second, then lies to you by rounding the display to whatever you tell it.  But it still keeps all those extra zeroes (11.0000000.......) in storage.

In any programming, you get to declare your variables (e.g. bool, character string, whole number (16-bit unsigned integer), signed integer (16-bit), long integer (32-bit), double integer (64-bit), etc.).  Vote tallies should be stored as long integers because there is never ever ever a case where there would be need for a fraction of a vote.  With whole numbers only, one never has need for exponent/mantissa format.  Yet Dominion uses floating point numbers.  And not only do they use them, but their software logged them in their connection to media outlets on election night with their periodic ticker reports.

btw, these are the same ticker reports where we saw Trump totals go down in some States as time passed.  Again, not possible.

I hope that clarifies.

I remember seeing those fractional numbers displayed--and vote totals go down, too. Thanks for the clarification on how the numbers are stored. Obviously, the numbers would not need to be stored as anything but integers unless there was something else going on.