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Comment by mywittyname

7 years ago

Like how banks keep track of fractional pennies when calculating interest, because rounding them off at time of calculation would introduce cumulative error. Instead, they round them off at payment time.

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mixmastamyk  7 years ago

Yes, as done in an image compositing pipelines as well, with higher resolutions and bits per pixel of color information until final output.

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