Another advantage: the results of additions no longer depend on the operation order. Converting floats to such ints helped me remove nondeteminism from a large

Another advantage: the results of additions no longer depend on the operation order. Converting floats to such ints helped me remove nondeteminism from a large pipeline that did additions over large sets of numbers. It was annoying to trace diffs in the pipeline when we were making changes and wanted to see what the end results are.