curiousity will be sated this afternoon

I'm pretty sure it'll be fine. People have been able to get well over ten million BP in the past, both through cheats and through compensation BP for lost progress.

With the new bp code, you could do it now

"Twosday"

Ah, my bad

Yeahhhh

That was after spending 20 mil too -_- I pray nobody ever gets the reset bug

Is there any reason it’s that specific?

You'll find most allowance numbers in coding come down to binary - in this case, there's a string of 31 bits that can contain either a 1 or a 0, and that base-2 system determines an integer value. If I have 001000 in binary, that means 8; 010110 would be 22.

2^31 is 2,147,483,648. You can have n-1 bloodpoints in this system because the counter starts at 0, so it can record a value of 0 to 2,147,483,647.

The idea is that when you look at a number, like 25, it's on a base 10 system. Each 'space' has 10 digits that can go in it (0 through 9). The 5 is 5x1 (or more accurately, 5*(10^0), so the 5 is just a 5. The 2 is 2*(10^1), so it means 20, not just 2. If the number were 625, the 6 goes in the space that marks 100, and 6*(10^2) records the value of 600.

Binary works on base 2. Each digit is either a 0 or a 1. Say I have the binary string 01011001. Ignoring signed bits for a second (though it's the same either way in this case), this displays the number 89. The math behind it looks like this; it's (2^7)*0 + (2^6)*1 + (2^5)*0 + (2^4)*1 + (2^3)*1 + (2^2)*0 + (2^1)*0 + (2^0)*1. Or more simply, 128*0 + 64*1 + 32*0 + 16*1 +8*1 + 4*0 + 2*0 + 1*1.

It's way easier to do this kind of calculation on a base 10 system because you don't have to mentally 'add' anything, but it is technically the same way you add up normal integers and it can work for any base. Hexadecimal, for instance, works on base 16, with digits 0 through F.

Binary's prominent in programming because computers all boil down to a bunch of circuits that can hold an 'on' or an 'off' value; there isn't room for 10 distinct states down at the very building blocks of the system, just 2, so it's most efficient to build your 'this means this' cases around that.

Unless you really, really need to use an unsigned integer for some reason (e.g. in old 8-bit games for space saving! 7 bits can only got to 128, so if you wanted a higher max than that), a signed integer means that if something slips through and it goes below 0, it just goes below 0.

As opposed to rolling over to the highest applicable value, which would in this case mean some 4 billion BP.

Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

The number ten is 1010 in binary

Starting from the left, give each an exponent, ultimately going to 0 on the last.

In the instance of 1010 it looks like this.

Next, multiply each number by 2, then apply the exponent, if the number is 0, ignore it

2^3 = 8

2^1 = 2

8+2=10

at least that’s how I’m able to comprehend it.

Powers of 2 are easy enough to remember/extrapolate that I wind up doing it that way, i.e. 1010 is 8+2. Or if you're writing out along the top, 8, 4, 2, 1 (working from right to left). Same thing, just rearranging the steps to convert. Then at some point I just memorised it for the values liable to be converted by hand.

and from 2,147,483,647 possible BP, they just gave us 1,000,000 BP.