Floating-point numbers start behaving more and more like Infinity the bigger they get. The bigger x is, the more y there are such that x + y = x. Then x hits Infinity, and we have x + y = x for all bar NaN.

Don't mind me, I'm just learning about the properties of the basic arithmetic units of computers, like, a decade into my career.

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