PartyPoker and skins pass a milestone that causes overflow

[barycentric]

PartyPoker and its skins passed the 2^31 = 2147483648 hands in the last 6 hours. As a result, all the hands that are imported into PokerTracker have overflow problem as their hand # show up as negative. In signed 32-bit integers, integers between 2147483648 and 4294967295 are negative. This doesn't affect PT's functionality, but I just thought it was hilarious.

[Frequitude]

Haha, I noticed that too!

Why do you think PT went with a signed 32 bit number, as oppose to unsigned? I mean, you still get the same number of possibilities, but a range of [0...(2^32)-1] makes a lot more sense than [-2^31...2^31]. What will happen after (2^32)-1 hands, will PT start overwriting old data???????

[Tapin]

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What will happen after (2^32)-1 hands, will PT start overwriting old data???????

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I'm guessing that the answer is "Pat will have fixed PT by then, thereby obviating the problem."