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creepydata on June 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chess.com stopped working on 32bit iPads because 2...

This is an fairly easy mistake to make for a novice developer to make. It even has a specific name - integer overflow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_overflow

The original Pacman crashes at level 256 for the same reason. - http://pacman.wikia.com/wiki/Map_256_Glitch

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