The speed of light is an integer. Why should we care?

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In theory, it might be possible to detect integer overflow involving constants without any runtime cost. (See my proposal here.), So code like

const c = 299_792_458;  # the speed of light
...
planks_length = sqrt(G*h_bar/c^3)

could give a warning.

However, this might actually make things more confusing, because users who see this warning might assume that integer overflow always results in a warning, and then write code that gives overflow at runtime.

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