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xkcd #3062: Off By One (xkcd.com)
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It does come at the small cost of a LOT more off-by-40-or-50 errors.

https://explainxkcd.com/3062/

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

In this language you would account for this behavior so all comparisons and lookups would be designed to be valid for the increased range. To do this you'd have to record integers in increments of 10, so there would be no (or very few) off-by-40-to-50 errors, or off-by-1 errors, but there would be off-by-10 errors.