You'll definitely have to throw it away at some point.
The art is in making those points well-defined and rare enough to not cause large discrepancies, but frequent enough to avoid ballooning arbitrary-precision numbers across databases and services that might not be able to handle them.
The art is in making those points well-defined and rare enough to not cause large discrepancies, but frequent enough to avoid ballooning arbitrary-precision numbers across databases and services that might not be able to handle them.