Which actually makes me wonder if somebody fat-fingered it and meant to type 65536 by hand and got it wrong. Which given everything we've found out about the sloppiness there, would seem quite apropos.
Normally I wouldn't think so, but the trailing "999994" also just seems so strangely floating point-derived... but who even knows.
68,719,476,736
It's a cool hypothesis, and perhaps the person who hardcoded that number was even inspired by 2^16 - 1 in some way, but as the replies point out it doesn't really make much sense beyond an odd curiosity.
> be me
> new employee at ftx bahamas office
> sbf is busy in dc doing effective altruism
> polycule ppl just got text from him
> tfw not in polycule
> sbf got a text from caroline
> we have to double alameda's credit line again
> guess that's my job now
> open excel spreadsheet
> they are planning to convert it to python soon
> find "borrow" column
> dozens of accounts have millions of dollars of credit
> find the alameda borrow entry
> feels goodman.jpg
> 32678000000e-3
> wtf is that
> it's 32678000000 mils divided by a thousand
> a mil is a tenth of a cent, it's finance jargon used by exchanges
> the e-3 at the end is scientific notation to divide by a thousand
> $32,678,000
> they've been doubling it by hand while high on stimulants
> last time they mixed up the 6 and 7
> bigbraintime.png
> i can just put parentheses around it and multiply by two
> leave it like that in the excel cell
> 32678000000e-3
> (32678000000-3)*2
> sbf texted again he says we solved caroline's problem
> success.png
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const FTX_LIMIT = Infinity;