> He claimed that his reason to do so was to avoid extradition to the US, [...]. But he had to make himself look like a victim of a conspiracy instead, and his followers eats it up.
A microcontroller for a pump probably doesn't need floating point numbers, but flight control software uses it.
This went wrong before and an Ariane 5 was blown up (automatically as a safety measure), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_fa...
Strictly speaking the problem was converting floats to 16-bit integers which ended in an overflow... So avoiding floats doesn't even help as it won't protect you from overflows.
"Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities" http://news.met.police.uk/news/update-arrest-of-julian-assan...
Sounds like Assange wasn't that wrong?